Rabbi Adolph Joseph Lasker, of Temple Emanu El in this village, died this week at Clifton Springs Sanitarium at the age of 35. He had been suffering from hardening of the arteries and kidney trouble. He was the former state chaplain of the American Legion.
He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Stern of Pittsburgh, and two daughters, Naomi, 8, and Tamar, 4, and his mother, Mrs. H. M. Lasker of Troy.
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