Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5220
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005220
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay
If death occured in a hospital or institution Glace Bay General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED MacDonald, Gwen Dolyn
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 27, 1903
10. AGE in Years66 Months11 Days1 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession House Wife
12. Kind of industry At Home
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Angus H. MacDonald
16. NAME of Father Duncan Olford
17. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
18. NAME of Mother Lavine Greening
19. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
20. Signature of Informant Levi Bennett for Angus H. MacDonald
address 19 Highland St. Glace Bay
Relationship to deceased Husband
21. Place of burial Greenwood Cemetery, Glace Bay
Date of burial July 31, 1970
22. Undertaker Pattens Funeral Home Ltd. Glace Bay
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Pulmonary edema
(b) Cancer of Liver
(c)
other
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