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Nancy Waubininkee is returned to Beaver Island for burial (1961)

Also Nancy Waubininkee obituary and burial

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TypeEvent
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era

Summary

The May 1961 issue reports Nancy Waubininkee’s return to Beaver Island for burial at Holy Cross Cemetery on April 7. It identifies her as born on High Island and as Paul Kenwabikisse’s mother.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper obituary and burial notice, not a civil death record, medical file, or cemetery register.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 1961, “Obituaries.”
    Reports that Nancy Waubininkee’s body was returned to Beaver Island on April 7 for burial at Holy Cross Cemetery, after her death at Grandview Medical in East Jordan following an extended illness. It says she was born on High Island and was Paul Kenwabikisse’s mother; it supplies no civil, medical, or cemetery register.