Funeral services were held here Sunday for Rita Lurie, a social worker and volunteer on behalf of Jewish Welfare causes here. She died last Wednesday at the age of 74 in her daughter’s Pacific Palisades home after a long illness.
Lurie was a long-time volunteer on behalf of the Jewish Federation in Cleveland, its Jewish Family and Children’s Service Agency, and her synagogue, The Temple. “She considered helping other people, whether family or friends, as her profession,” said her son, Rabbi Brian Lurie, executive director of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
A native of Russia, Lurie was brought as an infant to the U.S., where her family settled in Tindle, South Dakota. They moved to Cleveland when Lurie was in high school. She lived in Beechwood, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, for many years after marrying the late Lawrence Lurie, whom she met when both attended Case Western Reserve University. Lawrence Lurie died in 1972.
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