Stricken with a heart attack while attending Yom Kippur services with his wife at Temple Emanu-El of Borough Park, 4904 Fourteenth avenue, Brooklyn, yesterday, Harry Sommers, 63, of 1139 Forty-second street, Brooklyn, died soon afterwards at the synagogue despite the efforts of Dr. Ederstein, called from the Israel Zion Hospital, to save him.
Sommers is survived by his wife and four children.
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