Name: Margaret Lynch Gibson is remembered for the wartime Beaver Island newsletter, 2008
Start: 2008-10-12
End: 2008-10-12
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2008-10-12
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathpublicationcommunicationheritage
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Margaret Lynch Gibson died on October 12, 2008. The memorial credits her and four friends with creating a World War II newsletter that kept Island service members informed and grew from 20 copies to a subscription list of more than 240.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper memorial and retrospective publication history, not a complete newsletter archive or civil death record.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, November 2008, "In Memory: Margaret Lynch Gibson."
Reports Margaret Gibson’s October 12 death and her role with four friends in creating and mailing a Beaver Island newsletter to servicemen during World War II, eventually reaching more than 240 subscribers. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, November 2008, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the memorial and newsletter history.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Margaret Lynch Gibson is remembered for the wartime Beaver Island newsletter, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-margaret-gibson-memorial-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 2008, "In Memory: Margaret Lynch Gibson." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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