Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4275
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004275
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Halifax Infirmary
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Purcell, Harold Joseph
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Portuguese Cove
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 10, 1893
10. AGE in Years77 Months Days4 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired Car Forman, Canadian National Railway
12. Kind of industry CNR
13. Date last worked 1958 14. Total years 42
15. If married name of spouse Late Mary Purcell
16. NAME of Father Dennis Purcell
17. BIRTHPLACE Halifax County
18. NAME of Mother Sarah Anne
19. BIRTHPLACE Halifax County
20. Signature of Informant Sedley Mayo
address 15 Edgehill Road, Armdale
Relationship to deceased Son in Law
21. Place of burial Gates of Heaven Cemetery, Lr Sackville
Date of burial July 17, 1970
22. Undertaker Cruikshanks Funeral Home Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Acute Myocardial Infarction
(b)
(c)
other Congestive Cardiac Failure
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