Funeral services were held here today for Miss Loula Lasker, a national vice-president of Hadassah and a pioneer in the field of housing in the United States, who died of a heart attack Saturday at the age of 72. She had been an associate editor for 20 years of the old Survey and Survey Graphic.
Born in Galveston, Texas, Miss Lasker was a founder and for several years chairman of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York. She joined Hadassah in 1949 and established the organization’s first committee on wills and bequests that year.
Miss Lasker was a sister of the late Albert D. Lasker, executive and philanthropist; and of Mrs. Etta Lasker Rosensohn, a former national president of Hadassah.
Miss Lasker had served on the boards of the National Housing Conference, of which she was a founder, and the League for Industrial Democracy and the National Housing Foundation.
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