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Leonard Simms death at Sydney Mines, Cape Breton County on July 8, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4401

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004401

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Simms, Leonard

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney Mines

9. DATE OF BIRTH 12  12, 1919

10. AGE in  Years51  Months6  Days27 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Labourer

12. Kind of industry Labouring

13. Date last worked 1963       14. Total years 24 yrs

15. If married name of spouse Josephine May Kempt

16. NAME of Father Emanuel Simms

17. BIRTHPLACE England

18. NAME of Mother Sarah Jackson

19. BIRTHPLACE England

20. Signature of Informant Bernard Simms

      address 5 Prince St., Sydney Mines

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Brookside Cemetery, Sydney Mines

      Date of burial Jul 11, 1971

22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney Mines

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Myocardial Infarction

(b) Pulmonary Oedema

(c) Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease (ASHD)

other Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema

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