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Donna Marie Murphy death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on October 8, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5881

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005881

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Joseph's Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Murphy, Donna Marie

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay

9. DATE OF BIRTH 4  30, 1947

10. AGE in  Years23  Months5  Days8 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession housewife

12. Kind of industry at home

13. Date last worked Sept 1970       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse James Murphy

16. NAME of Father Neil D McNeil

17. BIRTHPLACE Reserve Mines

18. NAME of Mother Nellie MacNamara

19. BIRTHPLACE Reserve Mines

20. Signature of Informant James Wm Murphy

      address Centreville, Reserve Mines

      Relationship to deceased husband

21. Place of burial Gordon United, Reserve Mines

      Date of burial October11,1970

22. Undertaker VJ McGillivray Funeral Homes Ltd.

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Encephalopathy

(b) Possible viral pneumonia

(c)

other

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