Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, chief founder and trustee of Barnard College, who died Sunday at the age of 84. A descendant of the Seixas and Nathan families which played a leading role in Jewish life in the early days of the Jewish community here, she was noted as a writer, dramatist and advocate of women’s causes.
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