Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6533
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006533
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Cummings, Rita Victoria
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE North Sydney, Cape Breton County
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 24, 1915
10. AGE in Years56 Months3 Days19 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry House Duties
13. Date last worked 15 October 1971 14. Total years 28 years
15. If married name of spouse Martin Russell Cummings
16. NAME of Father Vincent Mancini
17. BIRTHPLACE Italy
18. NAME of Mother Ellen Bonini
19. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton, NS
20. Signature of Informant Mr. Martin R. Cummings
address 3585 Leaman Street, Halifax, NS
Relationship to deceased Husband
21. Place of burial Gate of Heaven, Lower Sackville, NS
Date of burial 15 November 1971
22. Undertaker Cruikshanks Funeral Home Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Respiratory Failure
(b) ? Aspiration
(c) Mental ________?
other
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