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Rettie Sumner Wilson death at Truro, Colchester County on October 18, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6116

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 006116

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Wilson, Rettie Sumner

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 9  7, 1889

10. AGE in  Years82  Months1  Days11 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Merchant (retired)

12. Kind of industry Grocery

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Marie Stella

16. NAME of Father Ebenezer  Wilson

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Ella Higgins

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. R.S. Wilson

      address 150 Queen St. Truro

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Yarmouth

      Date of burial October 20, 1971

22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Myocardial Infarction

(b) Arteriosclerosis

(c)

other

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