Funeral services for Robert Oppenheim, former Republican leader of the Seventeenth Assembly District, who died Sunday of a heart ailment at Bellevue Hospital, will be held at 10:30 this morning at the Park West Funeral Chapel, 115 West Seventy-ninth street. Burial will be in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Brooklyn.
Oppenheim, who was seventy-five years old, had undergone an operation at Bellevue. He had been confined to the hospital for two months.
Born on the lower East Side, he took a leading part in lower West Side politics during his youth. Moving to Harlem, he built up an extensive real estate business.
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