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Mary Ellen Dawson death at Halifax, Halifax County on April 3, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 2561

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 002561

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dawson, Mary Ellen

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax

9. DATE OF BIRTH 5  11, 1885

10. AGE in  Years84  Months10  Days23 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession housewife

12. Kind of industry at home

13. Date last worked Jan. 1970       14. Total years 50

15. If married name of spouse the late Arthur B. Dawson

16. NAME of Father Charles  Tulloch

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Elizabeth Carson

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Walter F. Tulloch FMC

      address 1122 Robie St, Halifax

      Relationship to deceased Brother

21. Place of burial Fairview Cemetery

      Date of burial April 6, 1970

22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Ltd.

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Pneumonia septicemia

(b) breast cancer

(c) pyogenic rectal ulcers

other

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