Mrs. George Markowitz Passes Away

Mrs. Lillian Braver Markowitz, 3802 Chickadee, wife of George Markowitz, died Thursday afternoon at Baptist Hospital, where she had been a patient for several weeks.

Mrs. Markowitz was born in New York 48 years ago and had lived in Memphis since the age of 2. She was a member of B’nai B’rith Women of Memphis, Senior Hadassah and Baron Hirsch Ladies Auxiliary. Before her illness, she was a secretary at the Jewish Welfare Fund and always found time to lend a helping hand to local organizations.

Surviving besides her husband, are her daughter, Mrs. Jerry H. Love, of Birmingham; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Braver, of Memphis, and a brother, Herman Braver, of Memphis.

Services were held Friday afternoon at Thompson Bros. Mortuary. Interment was in Baron Hirsch Cemetery with Rabbi Isadore Goodman officiating, assisted by Cantor M. I. Levin and Cantor David Skopp.

Hebrew Watchman

January 6, 1955, page 10