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Mary Downs Peters death at Halifax, Halifax County on March 3, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1962

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001962

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Halifax Infirmary

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Peters, Mary Downs

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax

9. DATE OF BIRTH   ,

10. AGE in  Years77  Months  Days | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired

12. Kind of industry House duties

13. Date last worked February 1970       14. Total years life

15. If married name of spouse Eugene L. Peters

16. NAME of Father Joseph B.  Bennett

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Edith Downs

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant J. G. DeWolfe

      address 1937 Oxford St., Halifax

      Relationship to deceased Cousin

21. Place of burial Fairview Cemetery, Halifax

      Date of burial March 5, 1970

22. Undertaker Cruikshank Funeral Home

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cardiogenic shock

(b) Myocardial infarction

(c) Venticular arrhthmia; complete heart block

other Renal failure; gastrointestinal bleed

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