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Minnie Lighter death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on October 11, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 6281

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 006281

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Lighter, Minnie

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Hebrew

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Poland

9. DATE OF BIRTH 8  14, 1886

10. AGE in  Years84  Months1  Days27 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Widowed

12. Kind of industry At Home

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Maurice Lighter

16. NAME of Father Abraham  Green

17. BIRTHPLACE Russia

18. NAME of Mother Freda Swetsky

19. BIRTHPLACE Russia

20. Signature of Informant Archie Lighter

      address Blue Water Drive, Glace Bay

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Hebrew Cemetery, Glace Bay

      Date of burial October 12, 1970

22. Undertaker Patten's Funeral Home Limited, Glace Bay

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Acute Coronary heart Disease

(b) Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease (ASHD)

(c) Generalized arteriosclerosis

other Senility

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