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Wallace Howard Tanner death at Halifax, Halifax County on May 11, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3478

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003478

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Tanner, Wallace Howard

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Blue Rocks, Lunenburg

9. DATE OF BIRTH 2  19, 1897

10. AGE in  Years74  Months2  Days22 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired Fisherman

12. Kind of industry Fishing

13. Date last worked 1961       14. Total years lifetime

15. If married name of spouse Calpurnia Tanner (deceased)

16. NAME of Father Elia Tanner

17. BIRTHPLACE Blue Rocks, NS

18. NAME of Mother Cordella Allen

19. BIRTHPLACE Lunenburg

20. Signature of Informant Kathleen Corkum

      address 33 Archibald St., Lunenburg, NS

      Relationship to deceased Daughter

21. Place of burial Blue Rocks, NS

      Date of burial May 13, 1971

22. Undertaker Dana L Sweeny Funeral Home, Ltd., Lunenburg

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cancer of Lung, Metastatic

(b)

(c)

other Arrythmia with pacemaker

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