Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6448
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006448
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Camp Hill Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Edwards, Hedley Earl
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 9 21, 1894
10. AGE in Years77 Months1 Days19 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Agent - Ret.d
12. Kind of industry Metropolitan Ins. Co.
13. Date last worked 1957 14. Total years 15
15. If married name of spouse Daisy Driscoll
16. NAME of Father James Edwards
17. BIRTHPLACE New Brunswick
18. NAME of Mother Florence Purves
19. BIRTHPLACE New Brunswick
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. H.E. Edwards
address 2641 Northwood Terrace, Apt. 306
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Lr. Sackville
Date of burial November 12, 1971
22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Carcinoma Pancreas
(b)
(c)
other
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