Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5737
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005737
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town North Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Elizabeth Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Johnston, Jessie May
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE North Sydney
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 5, 1908
10. AGE in Years62 Months2 Days23 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry Housekeeping
13. Date last worked September 26, 1970 14. Total years 40
15. If married name of spouse Sanford Johnston
16. NAME of Father Norman MacAskill
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Bessie Battleman
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant S.R. Johnston
address 66 Pippett St. North Sydney
Relationship to deceased Husband
21. Place of burial Lakeside Cemetery, North Sydney
Date of burial October 1, 1970
22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd. North Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Major Coronary Occlusion
(b)
(c)
other
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