Name: JoAnne Scripps Hooker dies after a life of family, art, and environmental work, 2007
Start: 2007-01-29
End: 2007-01-29
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2007-01-29
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathfamilycommunityheritage
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

JoAnne Scripps Hooker died peacefully on January 29, 2007. The May Beaver Beacon remembered her family life, art, care for wildlife and the environment, and work promoting peace and community, and reported that her family hoped to hold a Beaver Island memorial in June.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper remembrance and planned-service notice; it does not confirm that the June memorial occurred or provide a civil death record.

Sources

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Sources

Beaver Beacon, May 2007, “Joanne Scripps Hooker.”
Reports that JoAnne Scripps Hooker died peacefully on January 29 and describes her family, art, environmental work, and planned June memorial on Beaver Island. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, May 2007, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the in memoriam notice.
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Beaver Island Archive, “JoAnne Scripps Hooker dies after a life of family, art, and environmental work, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-joanne-scripps-hooker-death-2007/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2007, “Joanne Scripps Hooker.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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