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Rita Mae Cox death at Truro, Colchester County on July 14, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4656

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004656

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution Colchester Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Cox, Rita Mae

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 6  24, 1914

10. AGE in  Years57  Months  Days20 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry at home

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Austin Cox

16. NAME of Father Bill Jeffers

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Sarah Sanford

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Austin Cox

      address South Branch, Col. Co., NS

      Relationship to deceased Husband

21. Place of burial South Branch, Col. Co.

      Date of burial July 17, 1971

22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Carcinoma colon with Liver Metastases

(b)

(c)

other

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