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Richard Charles Cole death at Leitches Creek, Cape Breton County on July 30, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4754

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004754

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Leitches Creek
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highway 125

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Cole, Richard Charles

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 10  9, 1949

10. AGE in  Years21  Months9  Days21 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Welder

12. Kind of industry Welding

13. Date last worked July 30/71       14. Total years 4

15. If married name of spouse Doreen Penny

16. NAME of Father Silas Cole

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother May Dearing

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Doreen Cole

      address 35 Young St., Sydney Mines

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Greenwood Cemetery Glace Bay

      Date of burial August 2,1971

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

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Drowning

(b)

(c)

other Accident: Car left highway into Lake

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