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Ethel Gertrude Cowan death at Halifax, Halifax County on August 22, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5090

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005090

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution at home

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Cowan, Ethel Gertrude

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE White Mills, New Brunswick

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  13, 1893

10. AGE in  Years78  Months1  Days9 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry at home

13. Date last worked May/71       14. Total years 48 yrs

15. If married name of spouse Ralph Edward Cowan

16. NAME of Father John White

17. BIRTHPLACE NB

18. NAME of Mother Adelaide Henderson

19. BIRTHPLACE NB

20. Signature of Informant Mrs Wm Shields

      address 37 Edward Laurie Dr, Halifax, NS

      Relationship to deceased Daughter

21. Place of burial Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Lr. Sackville

      Date of burial August 24, 1971

22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Ltd, Halifax, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Arteriosclerosis

(b) Diabetes Mellitus

(c)

other

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