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Earle Eldon Dewitt death at Amherst, Cumberland County on December 30, 1970

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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