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PAGE 28 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 24, 1986
Obituaries
A. DeJongh Franklin dies at 64
A. DeJongh Franklin, 64, of
Atlanta died Thursday, Oct. 16.
Graveside service was held
Sunday, Oct. 16, at Arlington
Memorial Park, with Rabbi Alvin
Sugarman officiating.
Mr. Franklin was a partner in
the law firm of Smith, Gambrell
and Russell. He received a bache
lor of arts degree from the uni
versity of Georgia and was a Phi
Beta Kappa. He received his
bachelor of laws degree from
Harvard University. He was ad
mitted to the Georgia Bar in
1949.
Mr. Franklin was president of
the Atlanta Junior Chamber of
Commerce in 1955 and general
chairman of the National Jay-
cees Convention held in Atlanta
in 1955. He was a national direc
tor of the U.S. Junior Chamber
of Commerce, a member of the
board of directors of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, president
of the Georgia Association for
Mental Health, vice president of
the University of Georgia Alumni,
and a trustee of the University of
Georgia Foundation Inc.
He was also a national vice
president of the American Jew
ish Committee and special assist
ant to the president during the
Carter administration. He was a
member of the board of trustees
of Big Brothers of Atlanta, the
Salvation Army, the Muscular
Dystrophy Association of Atlan
ta, the Atlanta Jewish Federa
tion, the Atlanta Jewish Com
munity Center, the Atlanta Chap
ter of the Red Cross and the
Jewish Home.
Mr. Franklin was a member of
The Temple.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Frances R. Franklin; son, Andrew
D. Franklin of Boulder, Colo.;
daughter, Miss Alice Franklin of
Atlanta; sister, Mrs. Fred(Eloise)
Beerman of Atlanta; step-children,
Clark Howell III, Hugh Howell,
Mrs. Frances Beaver, Mrs. Mar
garet Scott and Mrs. Josephine
Nelson; and two grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the
Nell Marx Memorial Garden at
The Temple, or the Salvation
Army.
Morris Freedman
Morris Freedman of Atlanta
died Monday, Oct. 20. He was
97.
Funeral was held Tuesday, Oct.
21, at Ahavath Achim Synagogue
with Rabbi Arnold Goodman
and Cantor Isaac Goodfriend
officiating. Burial was at Green
wood Cemetery.
Mr. Freedman was a partner
of Comfort Furniture Company.
He was a member and trustee of
Ahavath Achim Synagogue, a
member of Fulton Lodge #216
F&AM, and a member of numer
ous other organizations.
Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Freeda Cohen of Atlanta;
sons, Ely Freedman and Jack I.
Freedman, both of Atlanta; eight
grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the
Jewish Home.
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Authority on Jewish history dies
by Joseph Polakoff
Kate Meltzer Green
Mrs. Kate Meltzer Green of
Atlanta died Tuesday, Oct. 21.
She was 88.
Graveside service was to be
held Friday, Oct. 24, at Crest
Lawn Cemetery, with Rabbi Alvin
Sugarman officiating.
Mrs. Green, a native of Cam
den, N.J., was a homemaker. She
was a resident of the Jewish
Home. She was a member of The
Temple.
Survivors include a son, Frank
R. Green of Atlanta; brother,
Abe Meltzer of Atlanta; five
grandchildren and nine great
grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the
Jewish Home.
Oscar Charles Kersh
Oscar Charles Kersh of Atlanta
died Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Graveside service was held
Wednesday, Oct. 22, at Green
wood Cemetery, with Rabbi Ar
nold Goodman and Cantor Isaac
Goodfriend officiating.
Mr. Kersh was a member of
Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Harriet Bach Kersh; daugh
ters, Mrs. Shelly Colin of Greens
boro, N.C, and Mrs. Jill Wein
berg of Meerick, N.Y.; sister,
Ms. Roslyn Pelton of Planta
tion, Fla.; six grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.
Donations can be made to the
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.
Retired Rabbi Jacob Bernard
Agus, who died Sept. 26, at 74, in
a Baltimore hospital, was an au
thority on the history of Judaism
who convinced the British histo
rian Arnold J. Toynbee that he
was wrong in his anti-Jewish
views and caused him to change
his mind in tracing the record of
Jewry.
Toynbee held that Judaism was
the “fossil religion” of a people
that had withdrawn into itself
and had not developed for nearly
2,000 years. After debating with
Agus however, Toynbee wrote in
“Reconsiderations,” the 12th
volume of monumental work, “A
Study of History,” that Judaism
is a body of belief that had con
stantly met Christianity’s chal-
Goodman Unveiling
The unveiling ceremony in
memory of Bernard “Sonny”
Goodman will be held at 11 a.m.
Sunday, Nov. 2, at Crest Lawn
Memorial Park, Shearith Israel
section.
Rabbi Arnold Samian of St.
Louis, Mo., will officiate.
lenges and had continued to ex
pand. Agus was a consultant on
that volume. Toynbee died in
1975.
Agus, who was born the son of
a rabbi in Swislorz, Poland, and
came to America in 1927, was
graduated in 1933 from Yeshiva
University and earned a master’s
degree and a doctorate in the his
tory and philosophy of religion
at Harvard. After being ordained
an Orthodox rabbi, he served
congregations in Dayton, Ohio,
Norfolk, Cambridge, Mass., and
Chicago before becoming rabbi
at Beth El Congregation in Bal
timore in 1950. He served there
for 30 years.
An intellectual leader of Con
servative Judaism, Agus served
on the executive committee of
the American Jewish Philosoph
ical Conference and was a past
chairman of the Ideological Con
ference of the Rabbinical Assem
bly of America. He was a con
sulting editor on Jewish religion
and history for the Encyclopedia
Britannica and a professor of
Jewish doctrine at St. Mary’s
Seminary in Baltimore. He wrote
nine books dealing with history,
philosophy, religion and bi
ography.
Survivors include his wife, four
children and 10 grandchildren.
Meyer W. Tenenbaum
Mrs. Estaire B. Ellison
Mrs. Estaire Boorstin Ellison
of Atlanta, formerly of Charles
ton, S.C.. died Tuesday, Oct. 14,
after a long illness. She was 83.
Mrs. Ellison was a retired owner
of Globe Shoe Store in Charles
ton.
Graveside service was held
Thursday, Oct. 16, at B’rith Sha
lom Beth Israel Cemetery in
Charleston.
Survivors include sons, Arnold
Ellison and Richard Ellison, both
of Atlanta; sister, Mrs. Bessie B.
Jacobson of Atlanta; four grand
children and four great-grand
children.
Meyer Warren Tenenbaum, 77,
of Savannah, founder and presi
dent of the Steel Division of Cha
tham Steel Corporation, died
Wednesday, Sept. 17, after a long
illness.
Funeral was held Friday, Sept.
19, at Agudath Achim Synagogue,
with burial in Bonaventure Ceme
tery in Savannah.
A native of Poland, Mr. Ten
enbaum emigrated to Savannah
in 1921. He was a graduate of
Emory University and Emory
University School of Law. While
at Emory he was president of the
student body and manager of the
boxing-wrestling team.
He was a past president of the
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president of B’nai B’rith and
former chairman of the Israel
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Appeal. He was a recipient of the
Israel Freedom Medal. He was a
member of Landrum Lodge 48,
F&AM.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. LaBelle Birnbaum Tenen
baum; son, Samuel Jay Tenen
baum of Columbia, S.C.; daugh
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New York City and Miss Karen
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