Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4248
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004248
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Halifax Civic Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Hale, Garfield Whycliffe
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Comfort Cove, Newfoundland
9. DATE OF BIRTH 2 20, 1928
10. AGE in Years42 Months3 Days3 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Mechanic
12. Kind of industry Automotive
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Walter Hale
17. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
18. NAME of Mother Minnie White
19. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
20. Signature of Informant Violet E. Lane
address Miller Road, Salmon River
Relationship to deceased Sister
21. Place of burial Watson's Cemetery, Salmon River
Date of burial May 28, 1970
22. Undertaker P.B. Kennedy, Truro
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Gunshot wound to head
(b)
(c)
other Secondary infection Suicide - bullet wound June 1/69
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