Event
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- demographycommunityreligion
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1963 Beaver Beacon reports the deaths of Amaritta DeWitt Ludwick, Alice Johnston Belfy, and Herbert Boyle. It gives Jackson, Charlevoix, and Chicago connections and says Belfy’s burial at Holy Cross Cemetery was to take place in spring. The February issue reports Robert “Robbie” Gibson’s January 16 death and the death of Mrs. Herman Fischner, with a planned spring burial at St. James Township Cemetery.
Evidence and limits
This grouped record preserves newspaper obituary and funeral information. It does not replace civil death certificates, funeral-home records, or cemetery registers. The January article’s identification of Alice Johnston Belfy is consistent with the later Belfy record but remains a newspaper claim here.
Open questions
- Can civil, funeral, and cemetery records confirm the reported deaths and burials?
- Can the newspaper’s Herbert Boyle relationship be tied to a complete civil identity?
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, January 1963, “Obituaries.”Reports the December 25 death of Amaritta DeWitt Ludwick, the December 30 death of Alice Johnston Belfy, and the death and Chicago burial of Herbert Boyle.
- Beaver Beacon, February 1963, “Obituaries.”Reports the January 16 death of Robert “Robbie” Gibson and the death of Mrs. Herman Fischner, whose spring burial was planned at St. James Township Cemetery.