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Ethel Mae Sheppard death at Sydney, Cape County on December 27, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7760

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007760

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Rita Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Sheppard, Ethel Mae

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland

9. DATE OF BIRTH 12  28, 1905

10. AGE in  Years64  Months11  Days30 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession At home

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Kenneth Sheppard

16. NAME of Father Leander Mercer

17. BIRTHPLACE Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland

18. NAME of Mother  

19. BIRTHPLACE

20. Signature of Informant Kenneth Sheppard

      address 33 Atlantic St, Sydney

      Relationship to deceased Husband

21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney

      Date of burial 30 Dec 1970

22. Undertaker R H Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd, Sydney

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Pulm. Insufficiency

(b) ch. Br. Asthma

(c)

other influenza

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