Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3590
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003590
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Dartmouth
If death occured in a hospital or institution 19 Best St, Dartmouth, NS (at home)
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Sproule, Gerald Owen
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Springfield
9. DATE OF BIRTH 2 11, 1941
10. AGE in Years30 Months3 Days18 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Labour
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked May 28/71 14. Total years 10
15. If married name of spouse Joyce
16. NAME of Father Clarence Sproule
17. BIRTHPLACE NS
18. NAME of Mother Verna Avon
19. BIRTHPLACE NS
20. Signature of Informant Clarence Sproule
address Springfield, NS
Relationship to deceased father
21. Place of burial Springfield, Anna. Co, NS
Date of burial May 29, 1971
22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Dartmouth
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Gunshot wound through head
(b)
(c)
other Suicide
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