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Harold Joseph Purcell death at Halifax, Halifax County on July 14, 1970

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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