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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