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Arthur Edward Messom death at Waterville, Kings County on June 28, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5045

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005045

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Messom, Arthur Edward

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

single

8. BIRTHPLACE Grand Pre, Kings County

9. DATE OF BIRTH 9  6, 1891

10. AGE in  Years79  Months9  Days22 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired Farmer

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked March 1958       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Charles Messom

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Margaret Farris

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Aubrey S. Messom

      address 230 Cornwallis Street, Kentville, NS

      Relationship to deceased Brother

21. Place of burial Elm Grove Cemetery, Steam Mills, NS

      Date of burial June 3, 1971

22. Undertaker John Pleasant, Kentville, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Acute Respiratory Failure

(b) Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

(c) Spontaneous Pneumothorax

other Arteriosclerotic Coronary Disease & Cor Pulmonale. Malnutrition. Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia

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