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Rita Mae Wilkinson death at New Waterford, Cape Breton County on October 14, 1970

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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