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August 7, 2008 / Obituaries

Thomas Shawver

Associated Press (AP) correspondent Thomas Lyle Shawver, 81, of Lansing, died Friday, July 25, 2008. Mr. Shawver was one of more than 300 reporters who covered the 1957 opening of the Mackinac Bridge. More...

Robert Lackey

Former St. Ignace resident Robert Lackey, 94, of Monticello, Florida, died Sunday, July 20, 2008, in Tallahassee, Florida. Mr. Lackey was born in Bruce Township, Ontario. He was proceed in death by his wife, Louise, who died February 17, 2007. More...

Gordon Reid

Gordon Bennett Reid, 94, of Dafter died Saturday, August 2, 2008, at Tendercare in Sault Ste. Marie. He was born July 24, 1914, in Dafter to Arthur Gordon and Fern nee Kelly) Reid. Mr. More...

Evelyn Prokop

Evelyn Prokop, 97, a longtime resident of St. Ignace, died Saturday, July 26, 2008, in Anchorage, Alaska, where she had lived for the past 12 years. Mrs. Prokop was born in 1911 to Herman and Ellen Pischner of Beaver Island. More...

Robert Flora

A memorial service is planned for Robert Louis Flora of Wildwood Shores, near Brevort, Saturday, August 16, 2008, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Trinity Lutheran Church in Brevort. A picnic lunch and celebration of his life are planned. More...

John Fenlon

John Gerard Fenlon, 52, died Thursday, July 31, 2008, at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. He was born August 7, 1955, in St. Ignace to John R. and Rena May (nee Cleary) Fenlon. Mr. More...

Thomas Jarvie

Thomas James Jarvie, 25, of Rudyard, died Wednesday, July 30, 2008, at Northern Michigan Regional Hospital in Petoskey. He was born September 28, 1982, in Sault Ste. Marie. Mr. Jarvie was a lifelong Rudyard resident. More...

Patricia Haskell

Patricia Ann Haskell, 83, of Kincheloe died, Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at Northern Michigan Regional Hospital in Petoskey. She was born December 23, 1924, in Ann Arbor to Adolph Ellory and Ruth (nee Allmendinger) Schmidt. Mrs. More...

Germaine Fitnich

Germaine M. Fitnich, 80, of St. Ignace, died Thursday, July 31, 2008, at Mackinac Straits Hospital Long Term Care in St. Ignace, following a two-year illness of cancer. More...

Clementine Gosciniak

Local restaurant owner Clementine Gosciniak, 88, of Evergreen Shores, died Thursday, July 31, 2008 at Mackinac Straits Hospital Long Term Care. Mrs. More...

Frank Blake

Frank Edward Blake, 88, of St. Ignace, was a pilot who took bread, mail, and hospital patients to and from Mackinac Island after World War II. He worked to develop the airport at St. Ignace. Mr. More...