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Wesley Pretty death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on September 22, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5732

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005732

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Rita Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Pretty, Wesley

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney

9. DATE OF BIRTH 2  7, 1917

10. AGE in  Years53  Months7  Days15 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Foreman

12. Kind of industry Sydney Steel Company

13. Date last worked September 11, 1970       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Margaret Oak Pretty

16. NAME of Father Walter Pretty

17. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

18. NAME of Mother Phoebe Taylor

19. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

20. Signature of Informant Howard Pretty

      address 171 Vulcan Ave. Sydney

      Relationship to deceased Brother

21. Place of burial Forest Haven Memorial, Sydney

      Date of burial September 25, 1970

22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd. Sydney

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Myocardial Infarction

(b)

(c)

other

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