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Rita Victoria Cummings death at Halifax, Halifax County on November 12, 1971

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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