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Death and funeral of Jean G. Smigel (1974)

Also Mrs. Walter Smigel obituary · Jean Adams Smigel funeral

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
ErasModern era

Summary

Jean G. Smigel, the former Jean G. Adams, died at Riverside Hospital in Trenton on January 17, 1974. Funeral services were held January 21 at Winchester Funeral Home, followed by burial at Brookside Cemetery. She taught in the Southgate school system and had spent summers at Bay Shore and Beaver Island.

Evidence and limits

The notice reports her age as 51 and says her parents had a Beaver Island summer home. It does not establish a civil birth or marriage record, a precise Beaver Island property connection, or independent funeral and cemetery documentation.

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, January 1974, “Mrs. Walter (Jean) Smigel.”
    Reports Jean G. Smigel’s January 17 death at Riverside Hospital in Trenton, January 21 funeral services at Winchester Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Manker, and Brookside Cemetery burial; it identifies her Southgate teaching career and summer connections to Bay Shore and Beaver Island but supplies no civil or cemetery record.