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Octavia Elizabeth Tyler Marr death at Halifax, Halifax County on January 21, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1322

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001322

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution South St. Nursing Home

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Marr, Octavia Elizabeth Tyler

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Waverley

9. DATE OF BIRTH 1  31, 1891

10. AGE in  Years78  Months11  Days21 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry At home

13. Date last worked May 1969       14. Total years 52

15. If married name of spouse Bertram A. Marr

16. NAME of Father Alonzo Hayward

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Georgina MacAskill

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. H.B. Robertson

      address 1125 Waterloo St. Halifax

      Relationship to deceased Niece

21. Place of burial Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax

      Date of burial 1970 January 23

22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Ltd

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cirrhosis of Liver

(b) Wasting

(c) Loss of appetite

other

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