- Dates
- 2021-11-22 – 2021-11-26
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilymilitarycommunityhealthcare
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Joseph Dues Reed Sr. died at his Beaver Island home on November 22, 2021, at age 93, according to a contemporaneous community notice and memorial posted to the Beaver Island forum. The memorial describes his Marine Corps service in Korea, later business and civic work, retirement to Beaver Island in 1993, and support for the island airport, Rural Health Center, tennis courts, and BI Fit program.
Evidence limits
The forum preserves a near-contemporary death notice and a detailed family or community memorial, making it useful for the island’s social memory and local activities. It is not a substitute for a civil death certificate or funeral-home record; the exact death time, burial, and later memorial outcome remain unverified here.
Sources
- The first-party Health Center board agenda proposed a resolution honoring Joseph D. Reed Sr. and a memorial bench for Reed, Kate Leese, and Adam Kendall. It corroborates planned institutional memorial recognition, but the agenda is not minutes and does not prove adoption.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016971
- A community post reported that Joe Reed had died at his Beaver Island home on November 22; a later memorial post identifies him as Joseph Dues Reed Sr., age 93, and describes Marine Corps service in Korea, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart awards, corporate and Chicago school-board work, Beaver Island retirement in 1993, and island civic work. It names a planned summer 2022 memorial and donations to the Rural Health Center. The forum memorial is a family/community account; no funeral-home or civil record is attached here.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016898
Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Joseph Dues Reed dies on Beaver Island, 2021”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-joe-reed-death-2021/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Rural Health Center, “BIRHC 1/13 Board of Directors Mtg Agenda,” Beaver Island Forum, January 12, 2022. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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