Funeral services for Mrs. Josephine Tausig, 86, resident of Chicago for seventy years, who died in her home here after a year’s illness, were held at the Beth El Temple, with burial in Graceland cemetery. Mrs. Tausig was the last survivor of the twenty original members of the Beth El congregation, which now numbers more than 500 persons.
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