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Florence Nightingale Tower death at Springhill, Cumberland County on May 18, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 3295

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003295

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cumberland If in City or Town Springhill
If death occured in a hospital or institution All Saints Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Tower, Florence Nightingale

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE England

9. DATE OF BIRTH 6  2, 1901

10. AGE in  Years68  Months11  Days16 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 1956       14. Total years 33

15. If married name of spouse William Howard Tower

16. NAME of Father Peter Gibbons

17. BIRTHPLACE England

18. NAME of Mother Sarah Osborne

19. BIRTHPLACE England

20. Signature of Informant Miss Catherine Van Snick

      address Southampton, RR 1 Cumb.Co. NS

      Relationship to deceased Sister

21. Place of burial Springhill, NS

      Date of burial May 21, 1970

22. Undertaker A.H. Brown Funeral Service Ltd., Springhill, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Myocardial infarction

(b) Arteriosclerosis

(c)

other

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