Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1876
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001876
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Eastern Passage
If death occured in a hospital or institution Ocean View Manor, Eastern Passage
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Marks, John Leigh
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax County
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 1, 1892
10. AGE in Years77 Months10 Days26 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Blacksmith
12. Kind of industry Halifax Shipyards
13. Date last worked 1957 14. Total years 40 years
15. If married name of spouse Marion Marks
16. NAME of Father James Lewis Marks
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Elizabeth Turple
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant M. Lynch
address Ocean View Manor
Relationship to deceased None
21. Place of burial Ship Harbour, Halifax Co.
Date of burial 28 February 1970
22. Undertaker Rowlings Funeral Service, Musquodoboit Harbour
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Pneumonia
(b)
(c)
other Diabetes
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