Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 2297
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002297
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Lunenburg If in City or Town Western Shore
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Lees, James Joseph
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 2 3, 1970
10. AGE in Years0 Months1 Days5 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father James Lees
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Shirley Rafuse
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant James Lees
address Western Shore
Relationship to deceased Father
21. Place of burial Western Shore
Date of burial March 10th 1970
22. Undertaker Avis Funeral Home, Chester
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Sudden Unexpected death
(b) Aspiration of gastric content
(c)
other
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