- Date
- 1957-09
- Kind
- Fundraising
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityfamilyhealthcare
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 1957 Beaver Beacon reported that Dr. John Ludwick Jr. had established a memorial fund for Beaver Island children in memory of his young son Perry, whose death was attributed to a recent plane accident.
Evidence and limits
This is a brief newspaper notice. It does not provide the fund’s amount, legal instrument, administrator, beneficiaries, later distributions, or an independent accident record.
Sources
- Reports that Dr. John Ludwick Jr. established a memorial fund for Beaver Island children in memory of his young son Perry, whose death resulted from a recent plane accident. It does not provide the fund’s amount, instrument, beneficiaries, administrator, accident record, or later distributions. 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 · 1957-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the brief memorial-fund notice; it does not expand the family, accident, financial, or beneficiary record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1957-09_Beaver-Beacon
Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “A memorial fund for Beaver Island children is established in Perry Ludwick’s memory, 1957”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-memorial-fund-for-children-perry-ludwick-1957/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1957, “MEMORIAL FUND.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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