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Shirley Theresa Decoste death at Halifax, Halifax County on June 10, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4020

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004020

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 Decoste, Shirley Theresa

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Antigonish County

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  19, 1950

10. AGE in  Years19  Months10  Days22 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked Dec./69       14. Total years 2

15. If married name of spouse Mr. Ronald DeCoste

16. NAME of Father Daniel Peebles

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Gladys Grant

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Ronald M. DeCoste

      address RR#2, Havre Boucher

      Relationship to deceased Husband

21. Place of burial Mulgrave

      Date of burial June 13, 1970

22. Undertaker Thompson & Haverstock Funeral Home, Port Hawkesbury

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cachexia

(b) Hodgkin's disease

(c)

other Marked jaundice Bowel Obstruction

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