- Date
- 2025-01-25
- Kind
- Death
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathtransportationcommercecommunity
- Within
- Charlevoix
Summary
Richard Marshall Hodgson of Charlevoix died on January 25, 2025, at age 85. His obituary identifies him as the father of Eric Hodgson and records that he co-owned the flight service from Charlevoix to Beaver Island, linking the death notice to the earlier Island Airways ownership record.
Evidence limits
The forum supplied the initial community notice. The funeral-home obituary is the stronger source for the date, age, family relationships, biography, and Beaver Island air-service connection. It does not by itself resolve the January 1989 Beaver Beacon’s inconsistent use of Richard and Eric Hodgson in its account of Island Airways ownership.
Sources
- The contemporaneous forum relay identifies Richard Marshall Hodgson, gives his Charlevoix residence and January 25 death, and says a full obituary would follow. It is treated as a community notice, not the basis for the fuller biography or Beaver Island connection.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 18 · t018372
- The funeral-home obituary confirms Hodgson’s January 25 death at age 85, identifies him as Eric Hodgson’s father, and says he co-owned the flight service from Charlevoix to Beaver Island. It also describes his Charlevoix State Bank career; the obituary is the stronger source for these facts.
Added 9 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Richard Marshall Hodgson, Charlevoix banker and Beaver Island air-service co-owner, dies in 2025”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-richard-hodgson-death-2025/, accessed [date], citing Marie LaFreniere, “Richard Hodgson RIP,” Beaver Island Forum, January 27, 2025. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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