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William Owen Gates death at Lunenburg, Lunenburg County on August 2, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4825

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004825

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Lunenburg If in City or Town Lunenburg
If death occured in a hospital or institution Fishermen's Memorial Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Gates, William Owen

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

German

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 12  21, 1884

10. AGE in  Years86  Months7  Days12 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 1961       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Susan Gates

16. NAME of Father Henry Gates

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Maria Sawler

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Pearl Baker

      address Chester, NS

      Relationship to deceased Daughter

21. Place of burial Blandford, NS

      Date of burial August 5, 1971

22. Undertaker Davis Funeral Home, Chester, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Terminal Bronchopneumonia

(b) Cachexia

(c) Probable Carcinoma Large Bowel

other

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