Funeral services for Franklin Simon, head of the Fifth Avenue department store bearing his name, were to have been held Saturday afternoon at his home in Oak Lane, Purchase, N. Y. Services were to be private. Burial was to have been in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Simon died Thursday at the age of sixty-eight after a long illness.
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