Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6678
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006678
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Willowdale Rest
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Ward, Claude Welton
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Windsor
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 23, 1897
10. AGE in Years74 Months2 Days13 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired Steelworker
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1963 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Jean (MacBratney) Ward
16. NAME of Father Harry Ward
17. BIRTHPLACE Windsor
18. NAME of Mother Margaret Lowther
19. BIRTHPLACE Windsor
20. Signature of Informant Seaward Cann
address Coxheath, C.B.
Relationship to deceased Son-in-law
21. Place of burial Forest Haven, Sydney-Glace Bay Highway, C.B.
Date of burial Nov. 8, 1971
22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd. Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Cerebral Hemorrhage
(b) Recurrent
(c) Arterio sclerosis
other
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