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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