Funeral services were held today for Jerome M. Comar, a former president of the Jewish Federation and Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, who died last Thursday in Winnetka, Ill, He was 64. The chairman of the executive committee of the Maremont Corp., Mr. Comar headed a Federation committee that recently completed what is perhaps the most comprehensive planning effort ever undertaken by a major Jewish community in the U.S.
A civic and communal leader, Mr. Comar served on the national boards of the American Jewish Committee and the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. He was a past president of the Chicago Federation’s Jewish Vocational Service, past chairman of the AJ Committee’s Chicago chapter and a former director of the Chicago Young Men’s Jewish Council.
CORRECTION
The story in Monday’s Bulletin about the Israel Bonds inaugural dinner in Philadelphia stated that a total of $83.3 million in Israel Bonds were purchased at the dinner. The correct sum should have been $3.3 million.
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