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Walter Leach death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on March 31, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 2738

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 002738

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution City Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Leach, Walter

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Ontario

9. DATE OF BIRTH 8  12, 1908

10. AGE in  Years61  Months7  Days19 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession clerk

12. Kind of industry Imperial Oil Company

13. Date last worked 1964       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Darrell Purtill Leach

16. NAME of Father George Leach

17. BIRTHPLACE Sarnia, Ontario

18. NAME of Mother Annie Laurie Richards

19. BIRTHPLACE Ontario

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Rohan Duchemin

      address Hillside Mira

      Relationship to deceased Sister-in-law

21. Place of burial Oakfield Cemetery, Hillside Mira

      Date of burial April 3, 1970

22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) massive cerebral haemorrhage

(b) emphysema

(c)

other

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