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Harry Lester Ross death at Amherst, Cumberland County on May 21, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 3619

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003619

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cumberland If in City or Town Amherst
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highland View Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Ross, Harry Lester

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 5  24, 1906

10. AGE in  Years63  Months11  Days27 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Painter, outside & interior

12. Kind of industry Decorating

13. Date last worked 1953       14. Total years 17

15. If married name of spouse Bertha Mabel (Brown) Ross

16. NAME of Father Robert Ross

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Margaret Rushton

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Harry Ross

      address 18 Elm St., Springhill

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Londonderry, Cumb.Co.

      Date of burial May 23, 1970

22. Undertaker A.H. Brown Funeral Service Ltd., Springhill

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Pulmonary Oedema and Atelectasis

(b) Postoperative resection of pelvi-rectal colon

(c) Carcinoma

other Acute toxic hephritis and cholecystitis

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