- Date
- 2017-08-07
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilycommunityagriculture
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Katherine Elizabeth Ricksgers died at her Beaver Island home on August 7, 2017, according to a forum obituary. The notice described her lifelong connection to the King’s Highway farmhouse, later Pontiac Motors employment, and August 14 interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
Evidence limits
This record relies on a detailed community-posted obituary and a personal remembrance. It does not add an independent civil or cemetery confirmation.
Sources
- The obituary identifies Ricksgers’s August 7 death at home at age 88, describes her birth and upbringing in the same King’s Highway farmhouse, work at Pontiac Motors, annual island visits, and planned Holy Cross burial. The forum preserves the obituary and a personal remembrance; no civil or cemetery record is held locally.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t012099
Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Katherine Ricksgers dies, 2017”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-katherine-ricksgers-death-2017/, accessed [date], citing Cindy R., “Katherine Ricksgers obituary,” Beaver Island Forum, August 8–9, 2017..
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