Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1541
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001541
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Shelburne If in City or Town Shelburne
If death occured in a hospital or institution Shelburne, Sandy Point Road at home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Shortliffe, Harriet Elizabeth
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 25, 1880
10. AGE in Years89 Months9 Days6 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1969 14. Total years 60
15. If married name of spouse Mr. Joseph Walter Shortliffe
16. NAME of Father John George
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Mary Richards
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Margaret Shortliffe
address Shelburne
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Shelburne Pine Grove Cemetery
Date of burial Feb. 4, 1970
22. Undertaker Huskilson's Funeral Home, Shelburne
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Coronary thrombosis
(b)
(c)
other PT failing for 3-4 weeks following URI-acute deterioration followed due to coronary artery disease
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