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Ada Riggs death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on December 18, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7294

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007294

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 Riggs, Ada

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

9. DATE OF BIRTH 11  18, 1903

10. AGE in  Years67  Months1  Days0 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession House Wife

12. Kind of industry At Home

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Samuel Riggs

16. NAME of Father Samuel Rose

17. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

18. NAME of Mother Louise Patten

19. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

20. Signature of Informant Gordon Hynes

      address 158 MacLean St. Glace Bay

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Forest Haven

      Date of burial December 21, 1970

22. Undertaker Patten's Funeral Home Ltd. Glace Bay

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Myocardial Infarction

(b)

(c)

other

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