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Susan Mary Buchanan death at Truro, Colchester County on October 8, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6112

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 006112

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution Weir's Nursing Home

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Buchanan, Susan Mary

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 3  17, 1883

10. AGE in  Years88  Months6  Days21 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession at home

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father John Purdy

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Mary Teed

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Donald Buchanan

      address 8 Belgrave Terrace, Truro

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Robie St. Cemetery, Truro

      Date of burial October 10, 1971

22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Congestive heart failure

(b) Arteriosclerosis heart disease

(c)

other

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