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Russell Melvin Corkum death at Lunenburg, Lunenburg County on June 17, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4080

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004080

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Lunenburg If in City or Town Lunenburg
If death occured in a hospital or institution Fishermen's Memorial Hopsital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Corkum, Russell Melvin

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

German

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Middle LaHave

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  30, 1893

10. AGE in  Years76  Months10  Days18 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired Fisherman

12. Kind of industry Deep Sea Fishing

13. Date last worked 1968       14. Total years Lifetime

15. If married name of spouse Myrtle Corkum

16. NAME of Father Simon Corkum

17. BIRTHPLACE Middle LaHave

18. NAME of Mother Ada Shankel

19. BIRTHPLACE Middle LaHave

20. Signature of Informant Douglas Corkum

      address Middle LaHave, Lun. Co.

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Middle LaHave

      Date of burial June 19, 1970

22. Undertaker Dana L. Sweeny Funeral Home Ltd. Lunenburg

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cerebral Embolism

(b) Myocardial Infarction

(c)

other Pneumonia

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