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Joseph Nelson Handspiker death at Digby, Digby County on December 25, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7462

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007462

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Handspiker, Joseph Nelson

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Mt. Pleasant

9. DATE OF BIRTH 3  6, 1907

10. AGE in  Years63  Months9  Days19 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Dorothy Titus

16. NAME of Father James Handspiker

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Mary Saulnier

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Dorothy Handspiker

      address Mt. Pleasant

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Digby

      Date of burial December 29, 1970

22. Undertaker Jayne's Funeral Home Ltd. Digby

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Urinary Infection

(b)

(c)

other

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