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Roy Elias Melanson death at Digby, Digby County on July 12, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4559

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004559

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Digby If in City or Town Digby
If death occured in a hospital or institution Digby Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Melanson, Roy Elias

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

French

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Plympton Station

9. DATE OF BIRTH 2  2, 1891

10. AGE in  Years79  Months5  Days10 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Pensioner

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father John Melanson

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Susan Comeau

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Richard Melanson

      address Brighton, Dig. Co.

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Plympton, Dig. Co.

      Date of burial July 14, 1970

22. Undertaker Weymouth Funeral Home Ltd, Box 24, Weymouth

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cardiac degengeration

(b) Arteriosclerosis

(c) Pulmonary edema

other

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