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Wanda Blanche Thornton death at Waverley, Halifax County on February 16, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1763

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001763

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Waverley

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Thornton, Wanda Blanche

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Meagher's Grant

9. DATE OF BIRTH 11  6, 1937

10. AGE in  Years32  Months3  Days10 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession R. N.

12. Kind of industry V G Hospital

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse William Thornton

16. NAME of Father Percy  Streatch

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Jessie Ann Streatch

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mr Arthur Thornton

      address Amherst

      Relationship to deceased Father-in-law

21. Place of burial Amherst

      Date of burial Feb 19, 1970

22. Undertaker R. D. Lindsay Funeral Home

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Asphyxiation

(b) Drowning - Accident

(c)

other Snowmobile went through ice on Waverley Lake

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