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Edgar Murphy death at Halifax, Halifax County on December 20, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7381

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007381

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Murphy, Edgar

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Wyse's Corner

9. DATE OF BIRTH 4  29, 1879

10. AGE in  Years91  Months7  Days21 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired

12. Kind of industry Farming

13. Date last worked 1952       14. Total years Life

15. If married name of spouse Florence

16. NAME of Father John Murphy

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Hannah Hurley

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Ralph Murphy

      address Milford

      Relationship to deceased son

21. Place of burial Gays River

      Date of burial December 22, 1970

22. Undertaker Ettinger Funeral Services Limited

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Femoral Artery Occlusion

(b)

(c) Gangrene of lower leg

other

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