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Veronica Riggs death at New Waterford, Cape Breton County on June 7, 1970

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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