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Pat Babiasz death and Beaver Island family connection, 2010

Also Pat Babiasz obituary

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Summary

Pat Babiasz died on December 16, 2010. A Beaver Island forum post shared her obituary and connected her family to the Island through her daughter Kathy O’Brien and the O’Brien family’s visits, including a 2006 Ireland trip with a group of Islanders.

Evidence limits

The forum post reproduces a newspaper obituary; no independent civil record or funeral-home source is held here. The Beaver Island connection is contextual, not evidence that Babiasz herself lived on or visited the Island.

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Sources

  1. The post shared an obituary attributed to the Chicago Sun-Times, reporting Pat Babiasz’s death on December 16 and identifying her daughter Kathleen (Kathy) O’Brien, whose family had been visiting Beaver Island. It is a copied community notice, not a held civil or funeral-home record.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 03 · t003048

Added 9 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Pat Babiasz death and Beaver Island family connection, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-pat-babiasz-death-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, "Pat Babiasz RIP," December 19, 2010..

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