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William Benjamin Townsend death at Dartmouth, Halifax County on August 19, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5112

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005112

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Dartmouth

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Townsend, William Benjamin

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Louisbourg

9. DATE OF BIRTH 5  26, 1910

10. AGE in  Years60  Months2  Days23 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired

12. Kind of industry HMCS Dockyard

13. Date last worked Jan 1970       14. Total years 30 years

15. If married name of spouse Mrs. Geraldine Townsend

16. NAME of Father Henry Townsend

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Elizabeth Wadden

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Geraldine Townsend

      address Porter's Lake

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Dartmouth Memorial Gardens

      Date of burial August 21, 1970

22. Undertaker A.L. Mattatall Funeral Service Ltd., Dartmouth

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Carcinoma Colon

(b)

(c)

other

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