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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