Mrs. Anna Lamport who, with her late husband Solomon Lamport, was active in the Jewish National Fund, died in Stamford, Conn., this weekend. She was 79, Mr. and Mrs. Lamport gave a botanical garden atop Mt. Scopus to the Hebrew University when the institution was still located there. Mrs. Lamport had been active in Hadassah and in connection with several religious schools.
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