Funeral services were held here for Rabbi Abraham Mayer Franklin, Chief Rabbi of Buffalo, who succumbed at the age of seventy-two. Interment took place at Pinehill Cemetery.
Rabbi Franklin was vice-president of the Rabbinical Association of America. He was a descendant of the Vilna Gaon..
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