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Earl Gene Skinner death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on June 21, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4238

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004238

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Sydney City Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Skinner, Earl Gene

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

African

7. Single, Married

single

8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney

9. DATE OF BIRTH 2  4, 1949

10. AGE in  Years22  Months4  Days17 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Unemployed

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Harry Skinner

17. BIRTHPLACE Guysborough, NS

18. NAME of Mother Jean Skinner

19. BIRTHPLACE Guysborough, NS

20. Signature of Informant Harry Skinner

      address 92 Tupper St., Sydney, NS

      Relationship to deceased Father

21. Place of burial Guysborough Co., NS

      Date of burial June 23, 1971

22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd. Sydney, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Shock due to multiple fractures of legs & pelvis, hemorrhage

(b)

(c)

other Accident: Car left highway and struck tree

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