Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1467
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001467
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Amherst
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highland View Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Gorveatte, Della Minnie
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Cape Spear, New Brunswick
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 31, 1886
10. AGE in Years84 Months4 Days24 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession housewife
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1 year 14. Total years life
15. If married name of spouse John Gorveatte
16. NAME of Father Colin Allen
17. BIRTHPLACE Cape Spear, N.B.
18. NAME of Mother Emma Trenholm
19. BIRTHPLACE Tidnish
20. Signature of Informant Ralph Gorveatte
address 38 LaPlanche St., Amherst
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Lorneville
Date of burial January 27, 1971
22. Undertaker R.A. Furlong, Amherst
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Congestive Heart Failure
(b) Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
(c)
other
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