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Elwyn Leslie Nelson death at Truro, Colchester County on March 2, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2139

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 002139

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution Colchester Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Nelson, Elwyn Leslie

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 8  16, 1913

10. AGE in  Years57  Months6  Days14 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Accountant

12. Kind of industry Brookfield Creamery

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Catherine

16. NAME of Father Leslie Nelson

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Ruth Gamble

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs Catherine Nelson

      address 34 Brook St, Truro

      Relationship to deceased wife

21. Place of burial Robie St Cemetery, Truro

      Date of burial March 4, 1971

22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Myocardial Infarction

(b) Pulmonary Edema

(c) Severe Coronary Atherosclerosis

other

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