Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Mrs. Mollie Silverberg, for years a leader in the affairs of the women’s vision of the Workmen’s Circle and Jewish Socialist organizations, who died at Tucson, Ariz., yesterday, at the age of 71. She was the wife of Dr. Samuel S. Silberberg, president of the Forward Association, which publishes The Forward, Yiddish daily. Born in Russia, Mrs. Silverberg came to this country in 1918, and had been active not only in the Workmen’s Circle but also in the Jewish Labor Committee.
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