Funeral services will be held this afternoon at two o’clock at Union Temple for Mrs. Dora D. Petchesky, prominently identified with communal and charitable work, who succumbed at the age of forty-four after an extended illness.
Mrs. Petchesky served for fourteen years as president of the Women’s Auxiliary of Beth Moses Hospital. She was president and founder of the Assembly of Jewish Women’s Organizations and a director of the Women’s Division of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities.
Her husband, four children and a brother survive her.
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