Leaders in all walks of public life, including city and state officials, participated today in the funeral of Louis H. Sobel, prominent Jewish social worker, and his wife Minna, who were among the victims of the shipwreck of the schooner Marvel in Chesapeake Bay last Friday.
Several thousand persons, most of them representatives of cultural and social welfare organizations with whom the late Dr. Sobel had been associated, filled to capacity Riverside Chapel where the services were held. Many hundreds of others who came to pay their last respects to Dr. and Mrs. Sobel remained outside the hall. The services were conducted by Rabbis David de Sola Pool and M. Cardozo of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, of which Dr. Sobel was a member. The bodies were later interred at the Beth David Cemetery.
Among those who sent eulogies were Lt. Gen. Willis D. Grettenberger, USA Retired, president of the Greater New York Fund; Miss Katherine F. Lenroot, formerly director of the U. S. Childrens Bureau; Marshall Field, president of the Child Welfare League of America; Carl M. Loeb, Jr., president of the Welfare and Health Council of New York.
Also, Salim L. Lewis, president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York; Mrs. Helen L. Stanton, president of the Sheltering Arms Childrens Service of New York; Philip Bernstein, executive director, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds; William Rosenwald, chairman, National United Jewish Appeal; Paul Baerwald, honorary chairman, and Edward M. M. Warburg, chairman, Joint Distribution Committee; Mrs. Sidney C. Borg, chairman, Jewish Board of Guardians, and a score of other individuals and organizations.
Morton L. Deitch, president of the Jewish Child Care Association of New York, of which Dr. Sobel was executive director for the last eight years, speaking at the services, said: “While the community at large has sustained a catastrophic loss, the Jewish Child Care Association, in particular, has had taken from it a man whom it relied on for inspiration, guidance and leadership in its day to day efforts to better serve those children who need help and home. We shall have to search endlessly to try and duplicate the integrity, ability and goodness of heart which have perished with Louis H. Sobel.”
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