Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1549
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001549
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Willow Nursing Home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Shrum, Alice Agatha
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Lake Echo, Halifax County
9. DATE OF BIRTH 2 26, 1881
10. AGE in Years89 Months11 Days13 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry House Duties
13. Date last worked April 1970 14. Total years 65 years
15. If married name of spouse James Strum
16. NAME of Father Samuel MacKay
17. BIRTHPLACE Halifax County, NS
18. NAME of Mother Not Available Not Available
19. BIRTHPLACE Halifax County, NS
20. Signature of Informant Mr. Harold Strum
address 2 Saskatoon Dr. Kearney Lake, Hfx Co.
Relationship to deceased Grandson
21. Place of burial Mount Olivet Hfx
Date of burial February 11 1971
22. Undertaker Cruikshank Funeral Home Limited
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Arteriosclerosis
(b)
(c)
other
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Note: Note the surname in line #3 (Shrum) compared with her husband's name in line #15 (Strum) and her grandson's name on line #20 (Strum)
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