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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