Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3254
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003254
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Halifax Infirmary
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Phelan, John Robert
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE New Glasgow
9. DATE OF BIRTH 5 2, 1913
10. AGE in Years58 Months Days5 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry Salesman
13. Date last worked Dec/69 14. Total years 5 yrs
15. If married name of spouse Margaret Phelan
16. NAME of Father Patrick Phelan
17. BIRTHPLACE Nfld
18. NAME of Mother Mary Moulton
19. BIRTHPLACE Nfld
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Margaret Phelan
address 269 Bedford Rd, Rockingham, Halifax
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Gates of Heaven Cemetery, Lr Sackville, NS
Date of burial May 10, 1971
22. Undertaker Cruickshank Funeral Home Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Acute Respiratory Failure
(b) Emphysema
(c) Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
other Asthmatic bronchitis
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