Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2847
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002847
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Lawson, Edna Hazel
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Levant, Maine, USA
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 23, 1895
10. AGE in Years75 Months11 Days25 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession housework
12. Kind of industry at home
13. Date last worked 1950 14. Total years 45 yrs
15. If married name of spouse Arthur Lawson
16. NAME of Father Lewis Henderson
17. BIRTHPLACE USA
18. NAME of Mother Cordelia Card
19. BIRTHPLACE USA
20. Signature of Informant David L Lawson
address 1540 Edward St, Halifax, NS
Relationship to deceased son
21. Place of burial Macadam, NB
Date of burial April 15, 1971
22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Ltd. Halifax, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Faecal fistula
(b) Carcinoma Bladder
(c) with enterovesicular fistula
other
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