Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2386
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002386
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution St Rita's Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Witzell, Elizabeth
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
French
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE St Rose, New Brunswick
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 12, 1894
10. AGE in Years76 Months7 Days7 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Joseph Gauvin
17. BIRTHPLACE New Brunswick
18. NAME of Mother Mary Ann Arsenault
19. BIRTHPLACE New Brunswick
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Elizabeth Boudreau
address Big Pond, Cape Breton, NS
Relationship to deceased daughter
21. Place of burial St Mary's Cemetery, Big Pond, NS
Date of burial March 22, 1971
22. Undertaker TW Curry, Sydney, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Congestive Cardiac Failure
(b) Arterosclerosis
(c) Diabetes Mellitus
other Chronic Nephritis
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