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Bertha Goorwitch death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on August 1, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5109

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005109

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay
If death occured in a hospital or institution Oceanview Rest Home

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Goorwitch, Bertha

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Jewish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Poland

9. DATE OF BIRTH 4  3, 1886

10. AGE in  Years85  Months3  Days29 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Widowed

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Sam Goorwitch

16. NAME of Father Hyman Zilbert

17. BIRTHPLACE Poland

18. NAME of Mother Sarah Waxman

19. BIRTHPLACE Poland

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Salbler

      address Stevely Rd., Glace Bay

      Relationship to deceased Sister

21. Place of burial Hebrew Cemetery, Glace Bay, NS

      Date of burial August 2, 1971

22. Undertaker Patten's Funeral Home Ltd., Glace Bay, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Generalized Arteriosclerosis

(b) with Senility

(c)

other

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