Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7671
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 007671
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Amherst
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highland View Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dewitt, Earle Eldon
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Dutch
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE River Hebert
9. DATE OF BIRTH 2 23, 1916
10. AGE in Years54 Months10 Days7 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Heavy Equipment Operator
12. Kind of industry Department of Highway
13. Date last worked April 1970 14. Total years 12
15. If married name of spouse Jessie DeWitt
16. NAME of Father George H. DeWitt
17. BIRTHPLACE River Hebert
18. NAME of Mother Laura Murphy
19. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
20. Signature of Informant Jessie DeWitt
address River Hebert
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial River Hebert East
Date of burial January 1, 1971
22. Undertaker Furlong's Funeral Home Ltd. Amherst
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Brochogenic Carcinoma
(b)
(c)
other
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