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Death of Cyrilla Lyons, 1973

Also Cyrilla Lyons obituary notice

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TypeEvent
Date1973-06-05
ErasModern era
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Date
1973-06-05
Kind
Death
Participants
Cyrilla Lyons (deceased)
Eras
Modern era
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demographycommunityheritage

Summary

Cyrilla Lyons died on June 5, 1973, after a reported two-month illness. The July notice gives her birth date as May 11, 1905, records Chicago residence and burial in St. Marys Cemetery, and notes the family’s long-standing Beaver Island summer home.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper death notice, not a civil, medical, or cemetery register.

Sources

  1. Reports Cyrilla Lyons's June 5, 1973 death after a two-month illness, gives May 11, 1905 as her birth date, says she lived in Chicago, and reports burial in St. Marys Cemetery; the Lyons family had a long-standing island summer home. It does not supply a civil or cemetery record, or identify the death place or which St. Marys Cemetery.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1973-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eleven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1973-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Death of Cyrilla Lyons, 1973”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/death-of-cyrilla-lyons-1973/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1973, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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