Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4795
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004795
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution Colchester County Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Burris, Donald Grant
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Green Creek
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 16, 1935
10. AGE in Years35 Months6 Days14 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Labourer
12. Kind of industry Textile
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Elizabeth Webber
16. NAME of Father Sanford Burris
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother
19. BIRTHPLACE
20. Signature of Informant Elizabeth Burris
address Brookfield, Colchester Co.
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Green Creek, Colchester Co.
Date of burial 1 August 1970
22. Undertaker P. R. Kennedy, Truro
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Hodgkin's Disease
(b)
(c)
other
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