Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3787
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003787
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Hants If in City or Town Eastern Passage
If death occured in a hospital or institution Government Wharf, Eastern Passage
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Rathbun, John Brian
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Windsor
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 23, 1945
10. AGE in Years26 Months1 Days16 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession electronics
12. Kind of industry Technician
13. Date last worked June 8/71 14. Total years 8 yrs
15. If married name of spouse Cornelias Gertrude
16. NAME of Father Maurice Rathbun
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Geraldine O'Brian
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant G M Rathbun
address Cheverie, NS
Relationship to deceased father
21. Place of burial Kempt Shore, NS
Date of burial June 11 1971
22. Undertaker J. Wilson Allen, Summerville, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Drowning
(b)
(c)
other Suicide: ran off wharf at Eastern Passage
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