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John Robert Dewar death at Truro, Colchester County on May 28, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3891

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003891

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution Colchester Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dewar, John Robert

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 11  6, 1926

10. AGE in  Years44  Months6  Days22 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession General Manager

12. Kind of industry Kerr Controls Ltd.

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Marie

16. NAME of Father Hugh Lawrence Dewar

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Prudence Elizabeth Bezanson

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Daniel C Dewar

      address Box 4, South Young Street, Summerside, PEI

      Relationship to deceased Brother

21. Place of burial Robie Street Cemetery, Truro, NS

      Date of burial May 31, 1971

22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Carcinomatosis

(b) Carcinoma of Lung

(c)

other

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