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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