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Ella Gertrude Ruddock death at Amherst, Cumberland County on June 10, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4418

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004418

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cumberland If in City or Town Amherst
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highland View Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Ruddock, Ella Gertrude

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE River Hebert

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  6, 1890

10. AGE in  Years80  Months11  Days4 | 2 hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Nurse

12. Kind of industry Nursing

13. Date last worked 1961       14. Total years 50

15. If married name of spouse Charles W. Ruddock

16. NAME of Father Howard Kelley

17. BIRTHPLACE Calais, Maine, USA

18. NAME of Mother Mary Lowe

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Annie Greer

      address Joggins, NS

      Relationship to deceased Sister

21. Place of burial River Hebert, NS

      Date of burial June 13, 1971

22. Undertaker Campbell's Funeral Home, Amherst, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Toxic Shock & Atelectasis

(b) Adynamic Peritonitis

(c) Necrosis of Colon of Undetermined Cause

other Acute Bronchopneumonia & Fracture of left Humorous

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