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Melvin Harding Meister death at Kentville, Kings County on June 17, 1970

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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