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Wayne Rutherford death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on January 29, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1455

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001455

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution City Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Rutherford, Wayne

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

single

8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney

9. DATE OF BIRTH 12  24, 1967

10. AGE in  Years3  Months1  Days5 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession at home

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Daniel Rutherford

17. BIRTHPLACE Sydney

18. NAME of Mother Shirley MacQuarrie

19. BIRTHPLACE Sydney

20. Signature of Informant Per: Raylene Williams

      address 27 Spruce St., Sydney

      Relationship to deceased

21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney

      Date of burial Feb. 1, 1971

22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cardiac arrest

(b) Asphyxiation due to swallowed F.B. Balloon

(c)

other

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