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Rita Leona Stevens death at Halifax, Halifax County on February 6, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1687

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001687

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hosp.

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Stevens, Rita Leona

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Dutch

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Lunenburg County

9. DATE OF BIRTH 5  15, 1893

10. AGE in  Years77  Months8  Days22 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 1970       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Arthur F. Stevens

16. NAME of Father Robt.  Rafuse

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Jennie Morash

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant John Stevens

      address Marriott's Cove

      Relationship to deceased Grandson

21. Place of burial Chester Basin

      Date of burial February 9, 1971

22. Undertaker Davis Funeral Home, Chester

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Probable cardiac arrythmia

(b) Adenoma endometrium - abd hipt

(c) wound dehiscence

other

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