Funeral services were held on Friday morning for Dr. Simon P. Burstein, prominent Cleveland Jewish Physician, who died in a sanitorium in New York at the age of sixty-one.
The services were held at the Riverside Memorial Chapel. The body will be shipped to Palestine for interment Dr. Burstein is survived by a widow and five children, two of whom are rabbis, Rabbi Abraham Burstein and Rabbi Elihu M. Burstein.
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