Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 7240
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 007240
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Lunenburg If in City or Town Bridgewater
If death occured in a hospital or institution Dawson Memorial Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Beck, Lydia Mae
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
German
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Baker Settlement, Lunenburg County
9. DATE OF BIRTH 6 22, 1898
10. AGE in Years73 Months5 Days19 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry Housekeeping
13. Date last worked 1970 14. Total years 56 years
15. If married name of spouse Colin Beck (deceased)
16. NAME of Father Benjamin Wentzell
17. BIRTHPLACE Upper Branch, Lunenburg Co., NS
18. NAME of Mother Martha Zinck
19. BIRTHPLACE Hemford, Lunenburg Co., NS
20. Signature of Informant Lowell J. Beck
address RR #5, Bridgewater, Lunenburg Co., NS
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Baker Settlement, Lunenburg Co., NS
Date of burial 14 December 1971
22. Undertaker The Wambeck Memorial Chapel, Bridgewater, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Inoperable Carcinoma of Caecum
(b) Retrocaecal Abscess found at operation making it impossible to perform hemicolectomy
(c)
other
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