Summary
The February issue reports Bill Whelan’s death in Chicago on January 28, 1961. It remembers him as a founder of the Beaver Island Yacht Club, a leader of the Yachtsmen’s Jamboree, and the recipient of a recent Yachtsman of the Year honor.
Evidence and limits
The notice supplies no cause, funeral, cemetery, birth, or fuller civil identity. Its celebratory descriptions are preserved as newspaper characterization.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 1961, “Island news.”Reports Bill Whelan’s January 28 death in Chicago, calls him a founder of the Beaver Island Yacht Club and leader of the Yachtsmen’s Jamboree at the Shamrock, and recalls his December Yachtsman of the Year honor. It does not provide a civil obituary, cemetery, or complete identity record.