Joseph L. Selling, long prominent in Jewish charity and welfare activities and a former president of the United Jewish Charities, is dead here at the age of 62. He was a former president of the Phoenix Club, a director of Temple Beth El and a member of the Detroit Real Estate Board of Commerce and the B’nai Brith. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he was brought to Detroit as a boy. He was educated in the Detroit schools and has lived here all his life.
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