Mrs. Etta Sternberg Cohn Succumbs

Mrs. Etta Sternberg Cohn, widow of Isadore Cohn, former salesman, who died in 1933, died Wednesday evening, December 7 at Baptist Hospital, after a brief illness.

Mrs. Cohn was born in Savannah, Ga., 74 years ago and had made her home in Memphis for the past 35 years.

She was a member of Temple Israel. She lived at 289 N. Watkins. Mrs. Cohn was a member of DAR, having been a descendent of a Revolutionary War Army colonel.

Surviving are her son by a former marriage, Albert Bennette; a sister, Mrs. Lester I. Goldsmith, and three grandchildren, John Albert Cohn, Albert B. Cohn, Jr., and Linda D. Cohn, all of Memphis.

Rabbi James A. Wax officiated at services held Friday morning. Interment was in Temple Israel Cemetery.

Hebrew Watchman

December 15, 1955, page 9