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Joseph Nelson Johnston death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on March 2, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2013

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 002013

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Johnston, Joseph Nelson

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 10  4, 1910

10. AGE in  Years60  Months4  Days25 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession War Pensioner

12. Kind of industry War Disability

13. Date last worked       14. Total years 25

15. If married name of spouse Elizabeth Stewart

16. NAME of Father John Johnston

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Mary Woolridge

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Truman Reiley

      address Bras d'Or

      Relationship to deceased Daughter

21. Place of burial Brookside Cemetery, Sydney Mines

      Date of burial March 5, 1971

22. Undertaker Fillmore and Whitman Funeral Home Limited, Sydney Mines

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease

(b) Chronic Pulmonary Disease Cold Tuberculosis - Thoracoplasty

(c)

other

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