Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7093
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 007093
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Springhill
If death occured in a hospital or institution All Saints Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Colwell, Delbert James
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Springhill
9. DATE OF BIRTH 2 18, 1896
10. AGE in Years74 Months9 Days13 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Miner
12. Kind of industry Coal Mining
13. Date last worked 1958 14. Total years 30
15. If married name of spouse Belle Colwell
16. NAME of Father David Colwell
17. BIRTHPLACE New Brunswick
18. NAME of Mother Mary Simpson
19. BIRTHPLACE New Brunswick
20. Signature of Informant Ernest Copeland
address 6 Clarke St, Springhill
Relationship to deceased Nephew
21. Place of burial Springhill
Date of burial December 4 1970
22. Undertaker A.H. Brown Funeral Service Ltd., Springhill
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
(b)
(c)
other
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