Matilda Schechter, wife of the late scholar and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary, died here last night at the age of sixty-five, leaving two daughters and a son. The funeral took place today from The Jewish Theological Seminary. She was buried in Har Harmon Cemetery.
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