Name: Death of former Beaver Island resident Arthur Taft, 1966
Start: 1966-08-29
End: 1966-08-29
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 1966-08-29
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: demographycommunityheritage
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The September 1966 Beaver Beacon reported that Arthur Taft, a former Beaver Island resident, died at Grandvue Medical Facility on August 29, 1966. It said he had lived on Beaver Island from 1938 to 1951 and returned in 1965.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper death notice. It does not provide civil, facility, funeral, or cemetery records.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, September 1966, “Obituaries.”
Reports Arthur Taft's August 29 death at Grandvue Medical Facility, his years living on Beaver Island, and his return in 1965; it does not provide civil, facility, or cemetery records.
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Beaver Beacon, September 1966, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice; it does not expand the source-specific identity, death, or residence claims.
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Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Death of former Beaver Island resident Arthur Taft, 1966”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/death-of-arthur-taft-1966/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1966, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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