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Florence Winnifred Porter death at Wyvern, Cumberland County on August 7, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5026

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005026

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cumberland If in City or Town Wyvern

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Porter, Florence Winnifred

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

Common Law

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 2  11, 1919

10. AGE in  Years52  Months5  Days27 | hrs or 2 mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked Aug/71       14. Total years 33 yrs

15. If married name of spouse Victor Porter (common law)

16. NAME of Father George Patriquin

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Mary Purdy

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Gary Meagher

      address 25 Chapel Street, Springhill, NS

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Fox Harbour, Cumb. Co., Nova Scotia

      Date of burial August 11, 1971

22. Undertaker A. H. Brown Funeral Service Ltd., Springhill, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Suffocation after an explosion in a house

(b)

(c)

other Accident: Body badly burned from fire former Mrs. Florence Meagher

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