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Elva Gertrude Melanson death at Yarmouth, Yarmouth County on December 11, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7364

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007364

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Yarmouth If in City or Town Yarmouth
If death occured in a hospital or institution Yarmouth Regional Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Melanson, Elva Gertrude

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

French

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 2  17, 1905

10. AGE in  Years65  Months9  Days24 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Pensioner

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Zacharie Melanson

16. NAME of Father Leon Comeau

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Annie Doucet

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Camille J. Melanson

      address Meteghan

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Meteghan Centre

      Date of burial Dec. 14, 1970

22. Undertaker Meteghan Funeral Ser., Ltd., Meteghan, per Francis Robichaud

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Collapsed lungs

(b) Carcinomatosis

(c) Generalized metastasis of carcinoma of left breast

other

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