Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3727
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003727
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution at home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Burnham, Harriet Edythe
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Digby
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 9, 1900
10. AGE in Years70 Months6 Days26 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry Practical Nurse
13. Date last worked 1965 14. Total years 40 yrs
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Ernest E. Burnham
17. BIRTHPLACE Digby, Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Alma Wilkins
19. BIRTHPLACE Shelburne, NS
20. Signature of Informant Gordon Ernest Burnham
address 13 Sunnybrae Avenue, Hfx, NS
Relationship to deceased Brother
21. Place of burial Digby, NS
Date of burial June 10, 1971
22. Undertaker Cruikshank Funeral Home Limited
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Acute Myrcardial Infarction
(b) Arteriosclerosis
(c)
other
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