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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