- Date
- 2005-07
- Kind
- Death
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilymilitaryheritagereligioncommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The June 2006 Beaver Beacon remembered William “Southern Bird” Gasco, born on Beaver Island in 1936 and a grandson of James Peaine. The notice records his Korean War service, retirement from Newmont Mines, family, and a May 8 celebration of life at the Little Traverse Bay Bands Tribal Council Center.
Evidence limits
The obituary says Gasco passed the previous July but does not give an exact death date or independently document the family genealogy.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, June 2006, "Passing of a Peaine."Reports Gasco's Beaver Island birth, High Island Peaine ancestry, Korean War service, Newmont Mines retirement, family survivors, and the May 8 Little Traverse Bay Bands celebration of life. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the obituary and celebration-of-life report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “William "Southern Bird" Gasco remembered in a Beaver Island obituary, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-william-southern-bird-gasco-death-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2006, "Passing of a Peaine." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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