- Dates
- 2015-08-11 – 2015-08-21
- Kind
- Death and memorial
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Participants
- James Stambaugh
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- death-and-memoryeducationcommunityveterans
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
James “Jim” Stambaugh died on August 11, 2015. Beaver Island held a celebration of his life at the Community School on August 21, with memorial contributions directed to the volunteer fire department or Rural Health Center and a public livestream announced for people unable to attend.
Evidence limits
The forum preserves an obituary link, service notices, and extensive community remembrance. Detailed biographical facts should be taken from the linked funeral-home record or other authoritative sources.
Sources
- The threads preserve the August 11 death notice, community remembrances of Stambaugh as teacher and mentor, the August 21 2 p.m. ceremony at Beaver Island Community School, memorial-gift guidance, and a livestream announcement. The detailed obituary link is preserved separately in topic 9241; the forum responses are community testimony, not a complete biography.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 08 · t009224
- The notice said the August 21 ceremony would be livestreamed with family permission. This documents the planned public access, not a preserved recording or viewer count.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 08 · t009265
- The notice supplied the August 21 time, venue, officiant, and memorial-gift guidance. It is a community announcement, not an independent attendance or service record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 08 · t009228
Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “James “Jim” Stambaugh dies and Beaver Island holds a celebration of life, 2015”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jim-stambaugh-death-and-memorial-2015/, accessed [date], citing Community notices, “RIP Jim Stambaugh,” “Celebration of Life Ceremony for Jim Stambaugh,” and “Celebration of the Life of Jim Stambaugh LIVE on Internet,” Beaver Island Forum, August 11–21, 2015. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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