Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2898
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002898
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Digby If in City or Town Digby
If death occured in a hospital or institution Digby General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Potter, Reginald Eugene
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Virginia East
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 21, 1889
10. AGE in Years81 Months11 Days28 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry Landscape Gardener
13. Date last worked 1955 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Nellie Mailing
16. NAME of Father John Douglas Potter
17. BIRTHPLACE NS
18. NAME of Mother Sabra Potter
19. BIRTHPLACE NS
20. Signature of Informant Nellie Potter
address Bear River, NS
Relationship to deceased wife
21. Place of burial Bear River, NS
Date of burial April 21, 1971
22. Undertaker R W Jayne, Digby, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Congestive Heart Failure
(b) Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
(c)
other Pneumothorax Pleurisy
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