Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1762
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001762
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Waverley
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Thornton, William Arthur
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Amherst
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 8, 1937
10. AGE in Years32 Months6 Days8 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Kerner Constr
12. Kind of industry Employee
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Wanda Streatch
16. NAME of Father Arthur Thornton
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Emily Mitchell
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Arthur Thornton
address Amherst
Relationship to deceased Father
21. Place of burial Amherst
Date of burial Feb 19, 1970
22. Undertaker R. D. Lindsay Funeral Home
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Asphyxiation
(b) Drowning - Accident
(c)
other Snowmobile went through ice on Waverley Lake
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