Name: Osa Cieslak dies after years of Beaver Island community life, 2008
Start: 2008-11
End: 2008-11
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2008-11
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathmigrationreligioncommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The December 2008 Beaver Beacon reported Osa Cieslak’s death in Petoskey and remembered her Beaver Island life, including Sanctuary Farms, school volunteering, Christian Church choir work, and family connections.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper memorial notice and does not provide a complete obituary, vital record, or independent genealogy.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Island Forum, "Osa Cieslak -- RIP," November 18, 2008.
A contemporaneous community notice reported Osa Cieslak's death at Bortz Nursing Home and requested messages for Britta. It supports the timing of the death but adds no independent obituary or vital-record detail; the Beaver Beacon remains the stronger source for her Island life and memorial account.
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Beaver Beacon, December 2008, "Osa Cieslak Officer of the Year."
Reports Osa Cieslak's death in a Petoskey nursing home, her years on Beaver Island, work with Sanctuary Farms, volunteering at the school, Christian Church choir activity, and family connections. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, December 2008, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the memorial notice.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Osa Cieslak dies after years of Beaver Island community life, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-osa-cieslak-death-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, "Osa Cieslak -- RIP," November 18, 2008. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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