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John Brian Rathbun death at Eastern Passage, Hants County on June 8, 1971

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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