Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4770
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004770
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution Weirs Nursing Home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Henderson, Ruby Ellen
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 6, 1875
10. AGE in Years96 Months3 Days19 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Joseph McCarthy
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Matilda Lemons
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Eva Henderson
address 24 McLellan St., Truro
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Terrace Hill Cemetery, Truro
Date of burial July 28, 1971
22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Pneumonia
(b) Heart failure
(c) Arteriosclerosis
other
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