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Lydia Mae Beck death at Bridgewater, Lunenburg County on December 11, 1971

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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