Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 6123
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006123
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Annapolis If in City or Town Granville Ferry
If death occured in a hospital or institution Spurr's Rest Home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Karnes, Edna Christina
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Young's Cove
9. DATE OF BIRTH 10 28, 1878
10. AGE in Years91 Months11 Days16 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 2 years ago 14. Total years 70 years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father John Covert
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Anne Gesner
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Florence E. Willett
address Granville Ferry
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial St. Mary's Cemetery, Belleisle
Date of burial October 19, 1970
22. Undertaker Chisholm's Funeral Home, Granville Ferry
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Ventricular fibrillation
(b) General senility
(c)
other
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