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John Edward Purcell death at Halifax, Halifax County on July 22, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4604

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004604

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Purcell, John Edward

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  28, 1887

10. AGE in  Years83  Months11  Days24 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired Clerk

12. Kind of industry Royal Insurance Co.

13. Date last worked 1952       14. Total years 45 yrs

15. If married name of spouse late Margaret Purcell

16. NAME of Father James Purcell

17. BIRTHPLACE Halifax, Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Mary Murphy

19. BIRTHPLACE Halifax, Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Rev. Thomas Purcell

      address Herring Cove, Halifax, NS

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Gate of Heaven, Lower Sackville, NS

      Date of burial July 24, 1971

22. Undertaker Cruikshank's Funeral Home Ltd.

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Arteriosclerosis

(b) Constitutional

(c)

other

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