Ben Fain Succumbs

Services were held for Ben Fain, of Tyler, Texas, a former Memphian, who died Sunday at Baptist Hospital after a three-month illness. Rabbi Isadore Goodman officiated at services held at Abraham Memorial Chapel. Interment was in Baron Hirsch Cemetery.

Mr. Fain was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fain, of Memphis. He had been manager of a ladies’ apparel store at Tyler for the past 33 years. He was 62 years of age.

Mr. Fain attended the old Market Street School in Memphis and served in the Army during World War I before moving to Texas. He was a Shriner and a member of the Elks Club and the American Legion.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Fortas Faine, of Tyler; his brothers, Phillip Faine, of Chicago, Ill., and Morris Faine, of 828 North Trezevant and a sister, Mrs. Sophia Drucker, of 351 North Cleveland.

Hebrew Watchman

November 10, 1955, page 2