Name: Death and Trufant burial of Elmer L. Sorensen, 1964
Start: 1964-10-08
End: 1964-10-11
Location: Greenville, Michigan

Locator map: Greenville, Michigan highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Greenville, MichiganLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Dates: 1964-10-08 – 1964-10-11
Kind: Death
Where: Greenville, Michigan
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: demographycommunityheritage

Summary

Elmer L. Sorensen, 53, of Trufant died on October 8, 1964, at his brother Victor’s home in Greenville, according to the October Beaver Beacon. The paper reports an October 11 service at Hoffman Funeral Home and burial in Trufant Cemetery. It also records Sorensen’s many years of visits to Beaver Island and identifies Dr. N. P. Sorensen as a brother with a summer home there.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper obituary and funeral notice. It does not provide a civil death certificate, funeral register, cemetery record, or complete family genealogy.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, October 1964, “Obituaries.”
Reports Elmer L. Sorensen, 53, of Trufant, died October 8 at his brother Victor’s home in Greenville; services were held October 11 at Hoffman Funeral Home with burial in Trufant Cemetery. It says he had been coming to Beaver Island for many years and identifies Dr. N. P. Sorensen as another brother with a summer home on the island. It does not provide a civil death certificate, funeral register, or complete family record.
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Beaver Beacon, October 1964, held issue PDF, source scan.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Death and Trufant burial of Elmer L. Sorensen, 1964”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/death-of-elmer-l-sorensen-1964/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1964, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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