Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5079
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005079
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Matheson, Garfield Russell
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay
9. DATE OF BIRTH 5 4, 1913
10. AGE in Years58 Months3 Days1 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Superintendent
12. Kind of industry Nova Scotia Power Corporation
13. Date last worked 14. Total years 44 yr
15. If married name of spouse Mrs Idna Matheson
16. NAME of Father Alexander Matheson
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Carrie Murrant
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Idna Matheson
address 105 South St., Glace Bay
Relationship to deceased wife
21. Place of burial Forest Haven, Cape Breton Co
Date of burial August 9, 1971
22. Undertaker Pattens Funeral Home, Union St., Glace Bay
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Pulmonary embolism
(b) Myocardial infarction
(c) Cerebrovascular accident
other
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