Services were held here for M. Edwin Weiner, 53, former general chairman of the 1969 Jewish Welfare Fund Appeal, who died Oct. 15. He was a member of the board of the Jewish Community Federation Welfare Fund for many years and was recently named to the National Executive Committee of the United Jewish Appeal. Since 1960 he had made six study mission trips to Israel.
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