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Charles Alexander Purdy death at Truro, Colchester County on September 14, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5884

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005884

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Purdy, Charles Alexander

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  28, 1887

10. AGE in  Years83  Months1  Days17 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession retired

12. Kind of industry Railway Conductor

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Annabelle Lightbody

16. NAME of Father John A.  Purdy

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Adelaide Teed

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Helen Gosbee

      address 122 Kaulback St., Truro

      Relationship to deceased Daughter

21. Place of burial Terrace Hill, Truro

      Date of burial September 17, 1970

22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Uremia

(b) Carcinoma of Prostate

(c) Hypostatic Pneynenice

other

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