Checks totalling $108,250 were distributed today by the Old National Bank and Union Trust Company to a dozen Jewish and general philanthropic organizations here and in other cities from the estate of the late Mrs. Mary Jaskulek who died last April. Mrs. Jaskulek was the last surviving member of a family that was one of the earliest in the state.
Jewish organizations receive $96,250 of the total distributed, the largest sum going to Temple Emanu-El.
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