- Date
- 1988-07-20
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilycommunityperformancecraftheritagecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Martha Marcella Miller died in Grand Rapids on July 20, 1988, aged 73. The August Beacon remembered her as a Beaver Island resident from 1972 who taught sewing and participated in community music and service. A July 26 memorial at the Christian Church included the Sweet Adelines; burial at Holy Cross was planned for the immediate family.
Evidence limits
The obituary gives a community biography and memorial details, not a civil record or a complete account of her teaching and volunteer work.
Sources
- Reports her July 20 death in Grand Rapids, Beaver Island residence from 1972, sewing instruction and community activities, July 26 Christian Church memorial, Sweet Adelines music, and planned Holy Cross Cemetery burial. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-page August issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the obituary and memorial notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-08_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Martha Marcella Miller dies and is memorialized on Beaver Island, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-martha-miller-death-and-memorial-1988/, accessed [date], citing Martha Marcella Miller obituary, Beaver Beacon, August 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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