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Benjamin Samuel Powell death at Digby, Digby County on April 28, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 3017

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003017

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Digby If in City or Town Digby
If death occured in a hospital or institution Digby General Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Powell, Benjamin Samuel

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

single

8. BIRTHPLACE Central Grove

9. DATE OF BIRTH 10  23, 1897

10. AGE in  Years72  Months6  Days5 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired

12. Kind of industry Farmer

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Charles Powell

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Ella Sanderson

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant CD Harris

      address East Ferry

      Relationship to deceased Friend

21. Place of burial Lake Midway

      Date of burial April 30, 1970

22. Undertaker Jaynes Guneral Home Ltd. Digby

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Congestive Heart Failure

(b)

(c)

other

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