Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7023
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 007023
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Lunenburg If in City or Town Bridgewater
If death occured in a hospital or institution Dawson Memorial Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Wight, Howard William
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Lunenburg County
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 30, 1884
10. AGE in Years85 Months11 Days29 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Fisherman
12. Kind of industry Fishing
13. Date last worked 1950 14. Total years 45 years
15. If married name of spouse deceased
16. NAME of Father William Wight
17. BIRTHPLACE Lunenburg County
18. NAME of Mother
19. BIRTHPLACE Lunenburg County
20. Signature of Informant Gerald A. Covey
address Indian Path
Relationship to deceased Son-in-law
21. Place of burial Indian Path
Date of burial Dec 2, 1970
22. Undertaker Dana L. Sweeney, Lunenburg
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Uremia
(b) Acute Retention
(c)
other
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