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Event

Death and planned Holy Cross burial of Peter Johnson (1973)

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Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
ErasModern era

Summary

Peter Johnson died at Grandvue Medical Care Facility in East Jordan on January 22, 1973, after ten years as a patient there. The notice says he was born on Beaver Island, had been a Great Lakes sailor, and was to be buried in Holy Cross Cemetery after services at St. Mary’s Church in Charlevoix.

Evidence and limits

The cemetery entry is a planned burial notice, not independent proof of interment. No civil, medical, maritime service, or cemetery register is inferred.

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, January 1973, “Obituaries: Peter Johnson.”
    Reports Johnson’s January 22 death at Grandvue Medical Care Facility, says services would be held at St. Mary’s Church in Charlevoix with burial in Holy Cross Cemetery on Beaver Island, and identifies him as a Beaver Island-born Great Lakes sailor; it does not confirm the later burial.