Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4054
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004054
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town New Waterford
If death occured in a hospital or institution New Waterford Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Riggs, Veronica
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE St. John's, Newfoundland
9. DATE OF BIRTH 9 6, 1887
10. AGE in Years82 Months9 Days1 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession At home
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Edward Riggs
16. NAME of Father James MacCarthy
17. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
18. NAME of Mother
19. BIRTHPLACE
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. John Corbett
address 173 Ellsworth Ave. New Waterford
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial St. Agnes Cemetery, New Waterford
Date of burial June 10, 1970
22. Undertaker V.J. McGillivray Funeral Homes, New Waterford
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Arteris schratic heart disease
(b) malnutrition
(c) dehydration
other
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