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Caroline Mary Ewart Purves death at Halifax, Halifax County on August 20, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5018

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005018

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 Purves, Caroline Mary Ewart

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Truro

9. DATE OF BIRTH 11  25, 1882

10. AGE in  Years87  Months8  Days26 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession

12. Kind of industry House duties

13. Date last worked July 1970       14. Total years life

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Henry C. Blair

17. BIRTHPLACE Truro

18. NAME of Mother Grace Ewart

19. BIRTHPLACE Montreal, Quebec

20. Signature of Informant A.H. Purves

      address 6077 Belmont Rd. Halifax

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Truro

      Date of burial August 22, 1970

22. Undertaker Cruikshanks Funeral Home Limited

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Recurrent Carcinoma Colon

(b)

(c)

other

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