The late Thomas Gerber, former editor and publisher of the National Jewish Ledger, a local weekly, left an estate valued at an estimated $250,000, bequeathing $100,000 of the total to a new foundation to be devoted to research into advanced surgical methods for repairing heart damage, it was disclosed here this weekend prior to the probate of the will.
Mr. Gerber died recently of a heart attack at the age of 61. His wife, Kay, died at 58 last fall. They had operated the Ledger which, last summer, was sold to a new corporation that now publishes the Jewish Week here. The new heart foundation, the will provided, is to be headed by Dr. Charles Hunagel, chief of heart surgery at Georgetown University and, when he surrenders that post, by the Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, in New York.
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