Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4461
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004461
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Victoria If in City or Town Neils Harbour
If death occured in a hospital or institution Buchanen Memorial Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Donovan, John Michael
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Ingonish
9. DATE OF BIRTH 10 9, 1897
10. AGE in Years73 Months8 Days30 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Carpenter
12. Kind of industry Carpentry
13. Date last worked 1961 14. Total years 40 yrs
15. If married name of spouse Mary Ann Young
16. NAME of Father Jim John Donovan
17. BIRTHPLACE Ingonish, NS
18. NAME of Mother Emmeline MacDonald
19. BIRTHPLACE Ingonish, NS
20. Signature of Informant Claire Donovan
address Ingonish, NS
Relationship to deceased daughter
21. Place of burial Ingonish, NS
Date of burial July 10, 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) Respiratory Insufficiency
(b) Obstructive Lung Disease
(c) Congestive Heart Failure
other Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
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