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John Ronan Somers death at West River, Pictou County on August 13, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5100

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005100

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Pictou If in City or Town West River
If death occured in a hospital or institution at home

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Somers, John Ronan

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 9  11, 1914

10. AGE in  Years56  Months11  Days2 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Clerk

12. Kind of industry Nova Scotia Liquor Commission

13. Date last worked Mar/71       14. Total years 20

15. If married name of spouse Mrs. Ronan Somers

16. NAME of Father Moses Somers

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Mary Catherine MacDonald

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Ronan Somers

      address West River, NS

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Antigonish, NS

      Date of burial August 16, 1971

22. Undertaker MacIsaac Funeral Home, Antigonish, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Pulmonary Embolism

(b) Peripheral Arterial Disease - Endarteritis

(c) Recent Embolism of Femoral Artery during amputation of the leg

other

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