Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3996
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003996
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town New Waterford
If death occured in a hospital or institution New Waterford Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Ropek, Marie
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
French
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE New Waterford
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 26, 1938
10. AGE in Years32 Months10 Days12 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession at home
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Walter Ropek
16. NAME of Father Nelson Deveaux
17. BIRTHPLACE Cheticamp, NS
18. NAME of Mother Gertrude Perfect
19. BIRTHPLACE Inverness, NS
20. Signature of Informant Walter Ropek
address 19 Heelan St, New Waterford, NS
Relationship to deceased Husband
21. Place of burial St. Agnes Cemetery, New Waterford, NS
Date of burial June 10, 1971
22. Undertaker V. J. McGillivray Funeral Homes Limited New Waterford, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Carcinoma of Breast with Metastases
(b)
(c)
other
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