Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 2835
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002835
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED McGrath, John Arthur
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 6 23, 1918
10. AGE in Years51 Months9 Days23 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired Army
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1960 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Marjorie Amiro
16. NAME of Father John McGrath
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Johanna Publicover
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Marjorie McGrath
address 6 Garden St., Bedford
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Lower Sackville
Date of burial 18 April 1970
22. Undertaker R. D. Lindsay Funeral Home Ltd., Bedford
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Glioblastoma
(b)
(c)
other Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
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