- Dates
- 1976-02-13 – 1976-02-16
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- migrationcommunicationcommunityrecreation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Joseph Gates died February 13, 1976, after a short illness. The February Beaver Beacon obituary says he had visited Beaver Island for about 13 years and built a summer home in the Sand Bay area; his funeral was February 16 in Plymouth.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper obituary and island-connection record, not a property or civil death file.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Reports Gates’s February 13 death at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, February 16 funeral in Plymouth, and first island visit about 13 years earlier before building a summer home near Sand Bay. It does not establish an exact first-visit year or property record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1976-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue confirms the obituary and funeral notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1976-02_Beaver-Beacon
Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Death and funeral of Joseph Gates, 1976”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/death-and-funeral-of-joseph-gates-1976/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1976, obituary “Joseph Gates.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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