Funeral services were held yesterday for Mrs. Anna R. Portes, Jewish centenarian, who died on Saturday at the age of 103.
Mrs. Portes came to the United States from Russia twenty-eight years ago at the age of seventy-five. Interment took place at Waldheim.
She is survived by a son, Samuel Portes, four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
During her childhood in Russia, Mrs. Portes was the only survivor of a typhoid fever epidemic which caused the death of all members of her family.
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