Funeral services for Mrs. Mary G. Schonberg, executive secretary of the National Council of Jewish Women, will be held this afternoon at one o’clock from the Riverside Memorial Chapel, Seventy – sixth street and Amsterdam avenue.
Mrs. Schonberg, who has served as executive secretary of the council for three years and was renamed for another three-year term at the triennial convention of the council last month, died Monday evening at the Park West Hospital. A native New Yorker, she was forty-five years old.
Funeral services will be conducted by Leo W. Schwartz, a former rabbi who was a personal friend of Mrs. Schonberg.
Messages of condolence have been received by the National Council from Miss Anne Morgan, president of the American Women’s Association; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Conference for the Study of the Cause and Cure of War; Mrs. H. Edward Drier, president of the Women’s City Club; Judge Joseph M. Proskauer and Alexander M. Bing, president of the City Housing Corporation. Mrs. Arthur Brin of Minneapolis, president, expressed the official regrets of the National Council in a message to Mrs. Schonberg’s family.
TAUGHT IN CITY SCHOOLS
Mrs. Schonberg was for twenty-five years a leader in social service work and civic activities. She taught in the city public schools from 1908 to 1912.
In 1912 she left the school system to become a factory inspector for the Bureau of Homework Inspection of the State Department of Labor. That was the beginning of her fight to help rectify sweatshop conditions, to which she devoted most of her professional career.
Mrs. Schonberg is survived by two daughters, Beatrice, now a student at the University of Chicago, and Jeanne, a student at Antioch College.
She is also survived by her parents, Harris and Nadia Gilbson, and a sister, Mrs. Rose Gittes. Mrs. Schonberg lived at 3911 Forty-eighth street, Long Island City.
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