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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