- Dates
- 2013-12-14 – 2013-12-18
- Kind
- Celebration
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityfamilyconstructionmaritime
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Walter A. Wogan celebrated his 90th birthday with family on December 14, 2013. The January 2014 Beaver Beacon connects the celebration to his long Beaver Island life: arrival in 1935, World War II service, marriage to Vera McDonough, and decades of construction, sawmilling, and civic work.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper birthday profile and family remembrance, not a complete biography or civil vital record.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, January 2014, "Walter Turns Ninety."Reports Walter A. Wogan's December 18 90th birthday, the December 14 family gathering, his 1935 arrival on Beaver Island, World War II service, marriage to Vera McDonough, and long career building Island homes and mills. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2014-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held January issue scan confirms the birthday profile.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2014-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Beaver Island Archive, “Walter A. Wogan celebrates his ninetieth birthday”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-walter-wogan-ninetieth-birthday-2013/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2014, "Walter Turns Ninety." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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