Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 3990
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003990
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Kings If in City or Town Kentville
If death occured in a hospital or institution B.F.M. Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Meister, Melvin Harding
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
German Dutch
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE New Ross
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 4, 1886
10. AGE in Years83 Months11 Days17 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession D.A.R. Railway
12. Kind of industry Section
13. Date last worked 1950 14. Total years 35
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Henry Meister
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Minnie Lockhart
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Minnie Mitchell
address Kentville
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Elm Grove Cemetery, Kentville
Date of burial June 19, 1970
22. Undertaker W.C. Hiltz Funeral Home
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Shock due to Evisceration
(b) Acute Cholecystitis operated
(c)
other ASHD with Hypertension
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