Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4545
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004545
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution Colchester Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Hughes, John Dartt
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Boston, Massachusetts, USA
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 3, 1916
10. AGE in Years54 Months6 Days15 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Carpenter
12. Kind of industry Construction
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Marjorie Hughes
16. NAME of Father John Dartt Hughes
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Esther Frame
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Marjorie E. Hughes
address 33 Miller Road, Truro
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Old Barnes Cemetery, Colchester Co.
Date of burial 20 July 1970
22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Hypotensive Shock
(b) Malnutrition
(c) Carcinoma, Right Lung
other
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