Summary
Chief Clarence Sikorski, age 55 and living at Interlochen, Michigan, drowned in the channel of Pine Lake on January 17, 1960. The Beaver Beacon identified him as a former Coast Guard member who had been in charge of the Beaver Island station in the late 1940s.
Evidence and limits
The newspaper gives no recovery details, exact site within the channel, funeral, or Coast Guard personnel record. The former-station role is kept as the newspaper’s account rather than expanded into a service chronology.
Open questions
- Which Coast Guard and civil records document Sikorski’s station assignment, death, and recovery?
See also
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 1960, “Vitals.”Reports that Chief Clarence Sikorski, 55, of Interlochen, Michigan, drowned in the channel of Pine Lake on January 17 and had formerly been Coast Guard in charge of the Beaver Island station in the late 1940s. It does not provide a death certificate, recovery account, or complete Coast Guard service record.