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From the New York Daily News, Saturday, October 16, 1954
MRS. TINIE GREENE
Mrs. Tinie Greene, 87, mother of Abe J. Greene, commissioner of the National Boxing Association and Associate Editor of the Paterson Evening News, died yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Irving Blank, at 410 East 38th St., Paterson, NJ.

New York Daily News, Saturday, October 16, 1954
NICHOLAS SCHULDT
Funeral services for Nicholas Schuldt, 36, traffic consultant and nephew of Frank Hoffman, of the building department of The News, will be held at 10am Monday in Immaculate Conception Church, Secaucus, NJ. Schuldt died Thursday in his home at 174 Pandolfi Ave., Secaucus.

New York Daily News, Thursday, September 9, 1954
JOSEPH DOWNS
Philadelphia, Sept. 8
Joseph Downs, 59, curator of the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum, died today at Jefferson Hospital. He was formerly curator of the Philadelphia Art Museum and of the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

New York Daily News, Friday, September 10, 1954
JOSEPH DOWNS
A Mass of Requiem will be offered at 10 A.M. tomorrow in Our Lady's Chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral, for Joseph Downs, 59, curator of the Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, Del., who died Wednesday.

New York Daily News, Thursday, September 9, 1954
RUTH V. TWOMBLY
Funeral services for Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly, of 1 E. 71st St., great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vandelbilt(sic), will be held at 11 A.M. next Wednesday in St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church, Fifth Ave. and 53d St. She died Sept. 1 in Paris.

New York Daily News, Thursday, September 9, 1954
JUDGE CURTIS WILBUR
Palo Alto, Calif., Sept. 8
Judge Curtis Dwight Wilbur, 87, Secretary of the Navy in the Coodlige Administration died today of a circulatory ailment. Wilbur was appointed Secretery(sic) in 1924 to succeed Edwin Denby in the aftermath of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil reserve scandals. In March, 1929, Wilbur was appointed to the U.S. Circut Court of Appeals by President Hoover.

New York Sunday News, October 10, 1954
GEORGE J. CHAMBERS
Funeral services for George J. Chambers, 93, of 305 Park Hill Ave., Yonkers, who retired 16 years ago as a federal court stenographer after a half century in that field, will be held at 8 P.M. tomorrow in the Havey funeral home, 107 N. Broadway, Yonkers. He died Friday in St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers.

New York Sunday News, October 10, 1954
PAUL FOLGER
Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 9
Paul Folger, 71, former assistant to the chief attorney for the New York Central system, died today. He was former president of the Western New York Federation of Bar Associations.

New York Daily News, Tuesday, September 7, 1954
Services for Matthew J. Lauer, 58, insurance man and worker for Jewish philanthropies, who headed the Matthew J. Lauer Agency, 295 Madison Ave., will be held at noon today at the Riverside chapel, 76th St. and Amsterdam Ave. Lauer lived at 450 E. 63d St. He died Saturday at Beth David Hospital.

New York Daily News, Tuesday, September 7, 1954
DON STEWART
Los Angeles, Sept. 6
Don Stewart, 65, president since 1944 of the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League, died today of a heart attack. Selected by Bill Veeck in December, 1953, to run the Milwaukee Club in the American Association, Stewart quit a month later to rejoin Los Angeles.

New York Daily News, Tuesday, September 7, 1954
NIKOL SCHATTENSTEIN
Nikol Schattenstein, 79, internationally known portrait painter, died yesterday in his summer studio in the Port Chester, N.Y., home of his niece, Mrs. Harry Brandt. He lived at 58 W. 57th St. Schattenstein, Russian-born, won many awards in Europe before coming to this country in 1920. Services will be held at 10 A.M. tomorrow at Temple Rodeph Sholom, 7 W. 83d St.

New York Journal-American, Sunday, October 17, 1954
Rev. L.T. Walsh, Of Franciscans
BUTLER, N.J., Oct 16 - The Rev. Leonard Thomas Walsh, 57, O.F.N., of St. Francis Monastery here died last night.
Father Leonard came to the monastery in 1948 from St. Francis College in Brooklyn where he taught philosophy.
Born in Brooklyn, he received his early education at St. Anthony's and St. Francis' Preparatory schools there, and later at St. Joseph's Seminary in Callicoon, N.Y.
He was received into the Franciscan Order in 1919, and ordained to the priesthood in 1926.
After a short time at St. Joseph's Church in East Rutherford, N.J., he was appointed superior of the Franciscan Monastery in Washington, where he served from 1937 to 1943.
In 1943 he was assigned to the philosophy department of St. Bonaventure College of New York and later to a similar department at St. Francis College.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. William Moran of Brooklyn and Mrs. Edward J. Moran of Ridgewood, N.J.

NY Journal-American, Sunday, October 17, 1954
Mass Tomorrow For E. Marchisio
A Mass for Ercole Marchisio, 71, one-time owner of the Marguery Restaurant, 270 Park ave., will be offered tomorrow at 10 a.m. at St. Cecilia's Church, Teaneck, N.J. He died of a heart attack at his home on Palisade ave., Englewood Cliffs.

NY Journal-American, Sunday, October 17, 1954
Alex Berman
Rites were being planned today for Alex Berman, 60, president of Tad, Inc., an Elizebeth firm. He died Friday at his home in Elizabeth.

NY Daily News, Tuesday, October 12, 1954
WALTER S. JEFFRIES
Margate, N.J., Oct 11 (AP) - Walter S. Jeffries, 61, former New Jersey Congressman and ex-mayor here, died last night. A Republican, he was elected to the House from the Second District in 1938, and served one term.


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