Funeral services for Harry L. Cohen, retired advertising agency executive who died of a heart attack Wednesday, will be held at 1 p. m. today at the West End Funeral Chapel, 200 West Ninety-first street. Burial will be in Union Field Cemetery, Brooklyn.
Mr. Cohen, who was fifty-seven, had been ill for two years prior to his death, which occurred at his home, 515 Cathedral parkway. He was one of the founders of the Collin Armstrong Company, general advertising agency.
Born in New York City, Mr. Cohen, who was well known in advertising circles by his nickname, “Nick,” started work at four dollars a week for the department store, at Grand and Allen streets, of Edward Ridley and Sons, the head of which was Edward Albert Ridley, millionaire whose unsolved murder occurred here in May, 1933.
The deceased was a generous donor to the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lillian Reich Cohen; two sons, Sydney Z. and Melville B. Cohen; and two sisters, Mrs. Hannah Rofield and Mrs. Annie Leibiskind, all of New York.
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