Name: Lawrence E. Garthwaite obituary and Beaver Island remembrance, 1968
Start: 1968-07-04
End: 1968-07-08
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 1968-07-04 – 1968-07-08
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathheritagecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The September 1968 Beaver Beacon reported that Lawrence E. Garthwaite of Coopersville died on July 4 after a long illness. Services were held July 8 and burial was in Coopersville Cemetery. The notice remembered more than 25 years of Garthwaite family hunting visits to Beaver Island.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper obituary and community remembrance. It does not provide civil death, funeral, cemetery, or complete family records.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, September 1968, “Obituaries: Lawrence E. Garthwaite.”
Reports Lawrence E. Garthwaite's July 4 death, July 8 service and Coopersville burial, and more than 25 years of Beaver Island hunting visits; it does not provide civil death, funeral, cemetery, or complete family records.
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Beaver Beacon, September 1968, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published obituary notice.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Lawrence E. Garthwaite obituary and Beaver Island remembrance, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-september-1968-obituary/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1968, “Obituaries: Lawrence E. Garthwaite.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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