Funeral services for Isse Koch, furniture manufacturer and philanthropist, will be held Sunday morning at 9:45 o’clock, in the Universal Chapel, Fifty-second street and Lexington avenue.
Mr. Koch, who was sixty-one years old, died in Sydenham Hospital Thursday, following an operation and a short illness. He was born in Germany and came here at the age of thirteen. As the founder and president of Isse Koch & Co., Inc., he was engaged in the wholesale furniture business all his life.
His philanthropic activities comprised Pittsburgh as well as this city. He was a member of the Independent Lodge, No. 185, F. and A. M.; A. A. S. R. bodies of New York; New York Lodge, No. 1, B’nai B’rith; a director of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, 106th street; a member of the Progress Club and of the Purchase Country Club, and of the Free Synagogue.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Nora Amberg Koch, three brothers and seven sisters.
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