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Dora Margaret Holmes death at Digby, Digby County on December 4, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 7295

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007295

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Digby If in City or Town Digby
If death occured in a hospital or institution Digby General Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Holmes, Dora Margaret

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Plympton, Digby County

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  2, 1900

10. AGE in  Years71  Months5  Days2 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired Housewife

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 1970       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Hiram Holmes

16. NAME of Father David Tibbets

17. BIRTHPLACE NS

18. NAME of Mother Eva O'Neil

19. BIRTHPLACE NS

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Lottie Hersey

      address Centerville, Digby Co., NS

      Relationship to deceased Niece

21. Place of burial Centerville, Digby Co., NS

      Date of burial 6 December 1971

22. Undertaker Jayne's Funeral Home Ltd., Digby Co., NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Peritonitus

(b) Abscess in left kidney

(c) Infection with abscess & blockage

other Severe Diabetes & Arteriosclerosis

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