Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 6284
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006284
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town New Waterford
If death occured in a hospital or institution New Waterford Consolidated Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Wilkinson, Rita Mae
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay
9. DATE OF BIRTH 12 2, 1913
10. AGE in Years56 Months10 Days12 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Household Duties
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 6 weeks ago (1970) 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Gordon Wilkinson
16. NAME of Father Phillip MacDonald
17. BIRTHPLACE Broughton
18. NAME of Mother Anna MacDonald
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Gordon Wilkinson
address 651 David Street, New Waterford
Relationship to deceased Husband
21. Place of burial Forest Haven, Grand Lake Road
Date of burial October 17, 1970
22. Undertaker V.J. McGillivray Funeral Homes Limited, Glace Bay
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Terminal cancer
(b) Metastatic cancer - probably (?) colon; diabetes mellitus
(c) hypothyroidism
other
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