Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 2992
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002992
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay
If death occured in a hospital or institution General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Butts, Walter
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay
9. DATE OF BIRTH 9 12, 1896
10. AGE in Years73 Months7 Days14 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Dominion Coal Co. ltd
12. Kind of industry Retired Miner #20
13. Date last worked 1958 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Helen McPhee Butts
16. NAME of Father Michael Butts
17. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
18. NAME of Mother Bridget Saccary
19. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
20. Signature of Informant Fred Butts.
address 24 Beach Street, Glace Bay
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial St. Anne's, Glace Bay
Date of burial April 29, 1970
22. Undertaker V. J. McGillivray Funeral Homes Limited Glace Bay
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Acute Coronary Thrombosis
(b)
(c)
other
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