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Matilda Gertrude Churney death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on August 7, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4912

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004912

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Rita Hospital Co.

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Churney, Matilda Gertrude

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  3, 1910

10. AGE in  Years60  Months1  Days4 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse William Francis

16. NAME of Father Timothy Donovan

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Isobel Hawley

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mr. William Francis Churney

      address 1231 Pataan Drive. London Ontario

      Relationship to deceased Husband

21. Place of burial St.Anne's Cemetery, Glace Bay

      Date of burial Aug. 11, 1970

22. Undertaker T. W. Curry Ltd., Sydney

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Acute Myocardial Infarction and Acute Pulmonary Edema

(b) Cerebral Accident leading to Paralysis

(c)

other

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