Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6853
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006853
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Halifax Infirmary
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED O'Connell, Rita Rosalene
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
French
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 2, 1908
10. AGE in Years63 Months4 Days24 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry at home
13. Date last worked Nov. 19/71 14. Total years 42
15. If married name of spouse Francis Victor O'Connell
16. NAME of Father James Sampson
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother May Lawrence
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Francis O'Connell
address 5484 Clyde St., Halifax
Relationship to deceased Husband
21. Place of burial Gate of Heaven, Lower Sackville, NS
Date of burial November 29, 1971
22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Septicemia
(b) Gastro Intestinal Bleeding, Post Operation
(c)
other Asthma, Hiatus Hernia, Bleeding Gastric Ulcer
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