Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2267
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002267
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town River Hebert
If death occured in a hospital or institution River Hebert
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dewitt, Laura
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 20, 1887
10. AGE in Years83 Months3 Days24 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked Sept/70 14. Total years life
15. If married name of spouse George H. DeWitt
16. NAME of Father Daniel Murphy
17. BIRTHPLACE P.E.I.
18. NAME of Mother Elizabeth Moore
19. BIRTHPLACE N.B.
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Allison Wolfe
address River Hebert
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial River Hebert
Date of burial March 19, 1971
22. Undertaker Furlong's Funeral Home, Ltd., Amherst
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) post-influenzal neurasthenia
(b)
(c)
other A.S.H.D senility
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