Mrs. Fannie Leavitt, wife of Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, died here last night at Doctors’ Hospital, after a short illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Riverside Chapel.
Mrs. Leavitt was chairman of the Overseas Scholarship Committee of the National Council of Jewish Women and was a former president of the New England Region of the Junior Hadassah.
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