- Date
- 2020-12-14
- Kind
- Death
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilypandemicpublic-health
Summary
Lyle Robert Merriam, 64, died on December 14, 2020, after leukemia and COVID-19 complications. His family’s forum notice and reproduced funeral-home obituary say that COVID-19 restrictions prevented an immediate funeral or memorial service.
Evidence limits
The forum preserves a family notice and an obituary attributed to Janowiak Funeral Home. It establishes the reported death and COVID-related service restriction, but does not establish a Beaver Island residence or a later memorial outcome.
Sources
- The family notice says Lyle Merriam died December 14 after leukemia and COVID-19 complications. The reproduced Janowiak Funeral Home obituary identifies him as 64, describes his family, and says COVID restrictions prevented a funeral or memorial at that time. The forum record does not establish that Lyle was a Beaver Island resident; it is preserved here because the notice appeared in the island community forum and directly documents a pandemic-era death and service restriction.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015908
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Lyle Robert Merriam dies from leukemia and COVID-19 complications, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-lyle-merriam-death-2020/, accessed [date], citing Family notice and funeral-home obituary reproduction, “Lyle Merriam RIP,” Beaver Island Forum, December 15–16, 2020..
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