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Ruth Mary Sherwood death at Halifax, Halifax County on May 13, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3479

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003479

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 Sherwood, Ruth Mary

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 10  18, 1923

10. AGE in  Years47  Months6  Days25 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession at home

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked Jan 1971       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Llewellyn Douglas Sherwood

16. NAME of Father John Mackley

17. BIRTHPLACE Baltimore, USA

18. NAME of Mother Edith Pushie

19. BIRTHPLACE North Sydney

20. Signature of Informant L Douglas Sherwood

      address 54 Mount Florence St. Coxheath, Cape Breton, NS

      Relationship to deceased husband

21. Place of burial Forest Haven, Sydney-Glace Bay Highway, CB, NS

      Date of burial May 16, 1971

22. Undertaker R H Fillmore Funeral Home, Sydney, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Carcinoma Rectum

(b)

(c)

other

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