l_raty
laurent raty
A note added to his birth record indicates that he died in Longuyon in 1967 (which is, unfortunately, too recent to be checked directly in an online archive).Therefore the pension ended earlier than the death was formaly registered by a formal act.
No statement that he was dead (nor, indeed, any other explanation) came with the announcement that his pension was discontinued. As I noted above, I would not expect that a decree be necessary to discontinue the pension of a deceased person -- thus, to me, the fact that a decree was used also supports the idea that he was not dead at all.