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Gerald Owen Sproule death at Dartmouth, Halifax County on May 29, 1971

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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