- Date
- 1979-09
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathmaritimefamilycommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Summer 1979 issue carries obituary notices for Alex J. Washegesic and Philip L. “Don” Burke, preserving their reported Garden and Beaver Island connections.
Evidence and limits
These are newspaper notices, not civil, medical, church, cemetery, or maritime personnel records.
Sources
- Carries notices for former Garden Island resident Alex J. Washegesic and Beaver Island-born Great Lakes sailor Philip L. “Don” Burke, with funeral, church, cemetery, family, and emergency-response details. It is a newspaper notice, not a civil, medical, church, cemetery, or maritime personnel record. 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 · 1979-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twelve-page Summer 1979 issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the obituary notices.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1979-06_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Summer 1979 Beaver Beacon obituary notices”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-summer-1979-obituary-notices/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, Summer 1979, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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