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Hilda Marguerite Squires death at Sydney Mines, Cape Breton County on August 5, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4765

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004765

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney Mines
If death occured in a hospital or institution Harbour View Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Squires, Hilda Marguerite

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 11  12, 1919

10. AGE in  Years51  Months8  Days23 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry Housekeeping

13. Date last worked Apr 1971       14. Total years 30

15. If married name of spouse John Robert Squires

16. NAME of Father George  Boyce

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Annie  Grant

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant John R. Squires

      address Big Bras d'Or

      Relationship to deceased Husband

21. Place of burial St. James Cemetery, Big Bras d'Or

      Date of burial August 7, 1971

22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd. Sydney Mines

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Bronchopneumonia

(b) Carcinoma Right Lung

(c)

other Secondary tumor in Brain & liver

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