Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4567
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004567
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Digby If in City or Town Digby
If death occured in a hospital or institution Digby General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Vantassell, Freda Dorothy
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Yarmouth
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 16, 1934
10. AGE in Years36 Months6 Days15 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry Housekeeping
13. Date last worked 1970 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Burgess Allen VanTassell
16. NAME of Father Sylvanus Smith
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Frances Doucette
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant B. A. VanTassell
address 302 Martin Gale Place, CFB Cornwallis
Relationship to deceased Husband
21. Place of burial Digby
Date of burial 4 August 1970
22. Undertaker Raynes Funeral Home, Digby
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Carcinomatosis
(b) Cancer of Cervix
(c)
other
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