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30 EDWARD APPEL, SERVED CASKET FIRM 51 YEARS Edward Appel of 114-06 84th Richmond Hill, an executive of the National Casket Company, with which he was associated for 51 years, died today at his home. He was 69 and had been ill since September. Mr. Appel, who was a member of the board of directors of the casket company, was in charge of purchase and distribution of funeral accessories for his firm with offices at Long Island City. He was past master of Doric Lodge, 280, F.

A. vice president of the church Council Andrew's Lutheran Church in Queens and was 8 member of the Queens County Grand Jury. He has also served as scoutmaster of Troop 364 of the Bushwick-Arlington Council, Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Appel was born in Manhattan, Sept.

26, 1871, and started his career with the casket company on July 1, 1889, as an office boy. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Appel! a daughter, Mrs. Herman A. Streller; a granddaughter, Vanda Soldier Killed in Crash Buried With Army Rites A military funeral was held today for Private Joseph Napolitano of 540 Driggs a member of Battery 245th Coast Artillery, now at Fort Hancock, N.

who was killed at the fort early this week when he was run down by a truck. Col. Charles F. Gleim, commander of the 245th Coast Artillery, other officers of the unit and a squad of troops and a bugler were present, the squad firing salute over the grave and the bugler sounding -NELLIE E. December 26, 1940, at 2200 Clarendon Road, wife of the late William H.

May. Services at the Funeral 1 Parlors, 40 Lafayette Avenue, Saturday, December 28, at 2 p.m. Kindly omit flowers. Louis E. Doring directing.

MOORE-On Tuesday, December 24, 1940, EMMA beloved sister of Mrs. Catherine Quigney, Mrs. Anna Gillen and James Moore. Funeral from residence, 249 Gates Avenue on Saturday, December 28, at 9 a.m.; thence to R. C.

Church of the Nativity. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, MOORE-THOMAS on Dec. 27, at his residence, 558 83d Street. Notice of funeral later. MORAN-JOSEPH husband of Elizabeth brether of Eugene F.

Moran; after a short illness at Battie Creek, Michigan. Died December 27, 1940. Burial from the of his brother-in-law. J. Frank Belford, 323 Garfield Place, Brooklyn.

Mass at 11 o'clock Monday, December 30, Church of the Nativity, Classon Avenue and Madison Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Please omit flowers. MOYLAN-MARY on December 26, 1940, devoted wife of the late Michael, and devoted mother of Margaret, Alice, Thomas and the late Moylan. Reposing at her residence, 133-38 Dennis Street, Springfield Gardens, L.

I. Requiem mass St. Mary Magdalene R. C. Church, Monday, 10 a.m.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. MULFORD -Un Wednesday, December 25, 1940. Reverend WILLIAM R. MULFORD. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Saturday at 2 p.m.

NIEMANN-On December 25, 1940, AGATHA (nee Bohny); beloved wife of Charles Niemann; dear mother of Henry and fond aunt of Mrs. Anna Peiffer. Funeral from her home, 717 55th Street, Saturday, 2 p.m. Interment GreenWood Cemetery. O'BRIEN MARGARET (nee O'Neill), on December 25, 1940, aged 88 years; beloved mother of May Whitbread, Elizabeth England, Ann Daley, Margaret O'Brien, Lawrence and John; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.

Funeral Saturday, 9 a.m., from her residence, 867 Greene Avenue. Solemn requiem mass, 10 a.m., at St. John the Baptist R. C. Church.

Interment St. John's Cemetery. POWER -MARGARET (nee Lynas), on December 26, 1940, dear wife of Joseph A. Power; mother of Austin Power and Dorothy Fisk. Funeral from the Malone Funeral Home, 2913 Newkirk Avenue (near Nostrand), Saturday, 9:15 a.m.

Mass Mary Queen of Heaven R. C. Church. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Kindly omit flowers.

PRIGGE-Suddenly, December 24, 1940, in his 33d year, HOWARD RICHARD PRIGGE, beloved son of Adeline Schroeder, Services at the Stutzmann Chapels, 2001 Madison Street, Ridgewood, on Friday, 8 p.m. RABE -On Dec. 25, at 144 Harris Avenue. Freeport, L. MARIE OTILLIA RABE, beloved sister of Frederick Gus and Harry Hitzelberger.

Funeral services will be held at the Parlors of Chester A. Fulton and Son, 49 West Merrick Road, Freeport, Saturday, Dec. 28, Interment Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. 30 H. MORAN DIES; TOWING FIRM EXECUTIVE Joseph H.

Moran, 61, well-known shipping man and prominent in social and charitable activities here, died today in the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, according to word received at the Moran Towing Transportation Company, 17 Battery Place, Manhattan, of he was secretary and treasurer. Mr. Moran was an active member of the Montauk Club, the Emerald Association, the Roman Catholic Orphan Society of Brooklyn, the Anvil Chorus, St. Patrick's Society of Brooklyn and the Cathedral Club. Mr.

Moran had served as president of the New York Boat Owners' Association and also was a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Washington Club, the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Club of New York, the Rudder Club, the Maritime Association of the Port of New York, the New York Towboat Exchange, and the Harbor Carriers of the Port of New York. Frohman Rites Set for Monday Funeral services for Daniel Frohman, dean of American theatrical producers, will be held Monday at 11 a.m. in the Church of the Transfiguration (The Little Church Around the Corner), 1 E. 29th Manhattan.

Burial will be in Union Hill Cemetery, 1 L. I. Mr. Frohman died yesterday in the LeRoy Sanitarium, Manhattan, at the age of 89. His body was taken to the Universal Funeral Chapel, 597 Lexington Man- Francis X.

Cleary, Ex- Advertising Man Associated Many Years With Western Electric Co. A solemn requiem mass will be celebrated tomorrow morning in Our Lady of Victory R. C. Church, Throop Ave. and Macon for Francis X.

Cleary, former advertising manager of the Western Electric Company, Inc. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Mr. Cleary died Wednesday of a heart attack in the Jersey City Medical Center at the age of 67.: He WAS stricken In Jersey City while returning "to his home in Interlaken, N. from a Christmas party at the home of a daughter, Mrs.

Catherine Roberts, in Manhattan. Mr. Cleary was born in Richmond, and came to New York as a child with his family. He attended St. Francis Xavier School and Columbia University and to work for Western Electric then Company in the '90s.

He retired in 1911. An organist, Mr. Cleary founded one of the first boys' choirs in the city at St. Finbar's R. C.

Church in Brooklyn. He is survived, besides his daughter, by his wife, Mrs. Mary Cleary, and two sons, Francis X. Jr. and W.

Douglas Cleary, director of public relations of the Hotel Commodore. Fred R. Davis Schenectady, Dec. 27 -Fred R. Davis, 64, one of the founders of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, and advertising space buyer for the General Electric Company, died last night.

DEATHS DEATHS He formerly was active in the Manhasset Club, the Fox Hills Golf Club and the Lido Club. A native of Brooklyn, where he was born Feb. 23, 1879, Mr. Moran was a son of the late Michael and Margaret Moran. He began his business career in the Marine Department of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad and joined the Moran organization in 1904.

He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Williams Moran, and his brother, Eugene F. Moran, who is chairman of the board of the Moran firm. Mr. Moran had lived for many years on the Park Slope, and 1 in recent years lived at 1088 Park Manhattan. The funeral will be held Monday from the home of his brother law, J.

Frank Belford, Garfield Place, with a solemn mass of requiem at 11 a.m. in the R. C. Church of the Nativity, Classon Ave. and Madison St.

Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Fall Down Flight of Steps Kills Borough Woman, 83 Miss Helen Greenidge, 83, eldest of four unmarried sisters who shared a four -room apartment on the third floor of 157 Prospect Place, was killed yesterday in a fall down a flight of stairs. Miss Greenidge stumblde at the head of the stairs and suffered a skull fracture. She was dead when an ambulance surgeon from Jewish Hospital arrived. Surviving are the Misses Marian, Kathleen and Laura' Greenidge.

hattan, where it will remain until 1 p.m. Sunday. At that time, it will Il be taken to the chapel of the Church of the Transfiguration. Appel, Edward Keene, Albert DALY-MICHAEL on Decem- GREENIDGE HELEN, on Baillet, Emma W. Lawrence, ber 26, at his residence, 859 54th cember 26, devoted sister of KathBoyle, Marie William H.

Street. Notice of funeral later. leen, Marion Louise, Laura and Burns, Emily Little, Francis W. George F. Greenidge, Funeral Carey, Clement MacKee, Marion on from Walter B.

Cooke, FuDAVIE-ANNA December Costello, May, Nellie E. of the late neral Home, 50 7th Avenue, Satur26, 1940, beloved wife Catherine Moore, Emma M. Robert Davie and devoted sister of day, 2 p.m. Interment Mount Olivet Thomas F. Carl R.

Peterson, and aunt of Mrs. Crawford, Mable Moore, Cemetery. H. Mildred C. Welch and Robert G.

Daly, Michael F. Moran, Joseph Peterson. Funeral services at Davie, Anna Moylan, Mary HEINE-On Wednesday, DecemDenning, Ernest Mulford, Parlor, 5215 ber 25, 1940, at John H. Holmlin's 7th Orange, N. forDilg, Rose Rev.

William R. Avenue, on Saturday 2 p.m. In- merly of 280 Degraw Street, Brookat Dillon, George Niemann, Agatha terment Evergreens Cemetery. lyn, JULIUS, beloved husband of Duck, James A. O'Brien, Margaret DENNING On December 21, Eleonora Heine, and father of Eckart, Ernest Power.

Margaret 1940, ERNEST, aged 63 years, be- Dorothy Jeffreys, Frank DelaEgan, Thomas Prigge, Howard R. loved Lea. T. Denning, vergne, Algernon, Julius Jr. and Eggertsen, Lillian Rabe, Marie O.

Annie McGeough, Ida Mae Nelson, Elenora Heine. Service at the FairFerris, Harriet M. Riley, Florence A. Harriett D. Bange, Harry H.

and child Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Fisher, Mary E. Robinson, Henry Harold C. Denning. Funeral serv- Brooklyn, Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Francis, Minnie Rosener, ices at the A.

Chester Smith FuGreenidge, Helen Catherine V. neral Chapel, 122 Meserole Avenue, HOFFMAN-INEZ (nee Spraker), Heine, Julius Schroeder, Maria Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Friday, De- wife of Howard suddenly on DeHoffman, Inez Shannon, John cember 27, 8 p.m. cember 25; daughter of Mr. and M. Hunt, Mary Stonehill, Mrs.

R. D. Spraker; sister of R. D. Jeffrey, Louise Mrs.

E. D. DILG-ROSE A. (nee Richter), Spraker Jr. Services private at Jeffreys, Dorothy Weeks, Frederick in her 73d year.

Services Friday, Cooperstown, N. Saturday, 2 p.m. Johnson, Wesley Weston, Helen C. December 27, at 8 p.m., at RoemJohnston, Weston, Mrs. mele's Funeral Church, 1230 Bush- HUNT--On December 26, 1940, Elizabeth A.

Campbell wick Avenue. MARY, beloved wife of James J. DILLON -December 25, and sister of John Price. Funeral Yunker, Rose T. APPEL-EDWARD, on Friday, GEORGE, beloved brother of Min- from the Fairchild Chapel, 86 LefDecember 27, 1940, at his residence, nie Holfester, Anna Ward, Eliza- ferts Place, Monday at 9:30 a.m.

114-06 84th Avenue, Richmond Hill; beth Carmello, John Dillon, the Requiem mass Church of Nativity beloved husband of. Anna (nee late Walter Dillon and Elsie Smith. at 10 a.m. Interment Calvary CemJackle) and father of Mildred Funeral Saturday, 9:30 a.m., from etery. Streller.

Services will be. held at Funeral Home, 496 Court Street. St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, St. Requiem mass St.

Mary Star of JEFFREY-LOUISE, Bay Shore, Nicholas Avenue and Harmon the Sea Church. L. December 25, 1940, beloved Street, Ridgewood, L. Sunday DUCK-JAMES mother of Edith Rhodes, Hetty on December afternoon at 4 o'clock. the Platt, and sister of Capt.

25, 1940, husband of late CatheSmith. Services Saturday, Decem-On Wednesday, De- rine Duck (nee Shannon); devoted ber 28, at Sydney Y. Sullivan Fucember 25, 1940, EMMA be- father of James Mrs. John mother of Philip, James, and brother of Daniel neral Home, 42 2d Avenue, Bay loved Humphries, John, Harry, Theodore and Joseph; and Mrs. Sadie Wulff, at Shore, L.

at 2 p.m. Reposing sister of Mrs. Mary Campbell and Harry Quayle Funeral Home, 134 William Crooks; she is also sur- Smith Street. Solemn requiem mass JEFFREYS In Thursday, Devived by 11 grandchildren. Funeral St.

Paul's Church, Saturday, De- cember 26, 1940, DOROTHY, befrom her home, 621 53d Street, Sat- cember 28, at 9:30 a.m. Interment loved mother of Vivian and Fredurday. Solemn requiem mass St. Holy Cross Cemetery. erick Jeffreys.

Services at the Agatha's Church, 10 a.m. Inter- Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, ment Holy Cross Cemetery, ECKART-On December 26, 1940, Saturday, 2:30 p.ra. ERNEST of 101 Lafayette AveBOYLE-On 'Wednesday, Decem- nue, beloved brother of Edmund MARIE wife of Jo- JOHNSON WESLEY Deber 25, 1940, Eckart of Daytona Beach, and mother Anna May uncle of Richard J. of 268 Oak wood cember 25, 1940, beloved husband of seph and Dorothy Voss. Funeral Road, Englewood, N.

and E. Al- Edith (nee Kelly), of 37 Gunnison Boyle from Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts bert Eckart of Cavalry Road, Court, Sheepshead Bay. Funeral 8:30 a.m.; mass Westport, Conn. Services at Fred services Friday, 8 p.m.., at Blakley's Place, Saturday, C' 9 a.m. Herbst Sons Funeral Home, 83 Funeral Parlors, 38 Lafayette AveHoly Innocents nue.

Interment 10 a.m. Saturday, BURNS--In Hartford, De- Hanson Place, Saturday, 8 p.m. In- Evergreens Cemetery. cember 25, 1940, at her late resi- terment private. Please omit dence, 64 Evergreen Avenue, EMILY flowers.

JOHNSTON-ELIZABETH (nee (BOYD) BURNS, wife of Charles EGAN-On December 26, 1940, Monahan), on December 24, at her Burns, aged 51 years, formerly THOMAS beloved husband of residence, 457 83d Street, beloved Brooklyn, N. Y. Prayers at the Henrietta, and father of Lillian and wife of Alfred and mother of JoJames T. Pratt Co. Chapel, 71 Helen Egan.

Funeral from the seph, Alfred Bernard, James Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Sat- Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, and Mrs. Joseph Smith. Requiem urday morning at 11 o'clock. In- Saturday, will be private. mass Saturday, December 28, at terment Mt.

St. Benedict Cemetery, 9:30 a.m., at the R. C. Church of EGGERTSEN-LILLIAN, Decem- St. Anselm's.

Interment Holy Cross ber 26, widow of Charles, sister of Cemetery. -CLEMENT. on December 25, 1940, devoted husband of Mrs. Agatha Campion, at her home, Della Flood, father of Sis- 129 Noble Street. Funeral Saturday KEENE On Thursday, Decembeloved ter Clement Raymond, O.

Sis- morning at 9:30 from ber 26, :940, ALBERT JAMES, aged ter Mary Bridget, O. and Mat- Funeral Parlor, 1341 Bedford Ave- 64 years, beloved husband of Susan thew, William, Mrs. Josephine nue; thence to St. Antony's R. C.

E. Keene and devoted father of Davitt and Clement also sur- Church. Mass at 10 a.m. Interment Margaret Helen; brother of Mrs. vived by a brother, Michael, of St.

John's Cemetery. Lola Robinson, Mrs. Elizabeth Brooklyn; 2 brothers and 2 sisters Lindsley and Mrs. Jennie C. Greenin Ireland, and one granddaughter.

FERRIS December 25, 1940, wood. Funeral services at his resiReposing at his residence, 1957 E. at her home, 13 E. 7th Street, dence, 195 Weirfield Street, on 28th Street. Requiem mass Satur- Brooklyn, HARRIET M.

Survived Saturday, Decembe. 28, at 2 p.m. day, 9:30 a.m., Church of the Good by three daughters. Service Friday, Shepherd, Avenue and Batchel- 8 p.m. Interment Saturday a.m.

LAWRENCE -Suddenly, on Frider Street. Interment Calvary at Green -Wood Cemetery. day, December 27, 1940, WILLIAM Cemetery, FISHER MARY of San Francisco, beloved husELLEN (nee Maher), December band of Anna C. Van Pelt. Service COSTELLO-CA'THERINE (nee 25, at her home, 1676 Jefferson Avenue; beloved at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Healey), on December 25, 1940, loved wife of William Francis; wife of Paul devoted mother of Place, Brooklyn, on Sunday, 2 p.m.

dear mother of John; daughter of William E. Traub and Mrs. MarMrs. Annie E. Healey; sister of garet Krauss, sister of Edward LITTLE FRANCIS on De- Mrs.

Alice Beyers and Thomas. Maher. Funeral from her home, cember 25, 1940, at his residence, 991 Reposing at the M. J. Smith Mem- on Saturday, at 9 a.m.; thence Bergen Street, husband of the late orial, 248 Prospect Park until to St.

Matthias R. C. Church. In- Minnie McGee Little. Solemn reWest, Saturday, 9 a.m..

Requiem mass terment Old Calvary Cemetery. quiem mass St. Teresa's Church, Holy Name Church. Interment Saturday, a.m. 10:45 FRANCIS--On Friday, Dec.

27, Austin W. Moran, Director. Holy Cross Cemetery. 1940, MINNIE, daughter of the late CRAWFORD-Suddenly, Decem- John H. and Sarah C.

Francis. MacKEE- On Friday, December ber 26, 1940, at White Plains, N. Service at her residence, 217 St. 27, MARION beloved wife 1940, MABLE CRAWFORD of 1055 Hal- John's Place, Sunday, at 2 of Paul B. p.m.

MacKee and daughter 'sey Street. Funeral services at B. of the late James and Hannah J. Thuring's Parlors, 1178 Vital Notices accepted 8 a.m. to Mott: devoted sister of Mrs.

John Funeral Bushwick Avenue, on Sunday, De- 2 p.m. for publication the same day: D. Cummin. Services at her resicomber 29, at 2 p.m. Interment as late as 10 p.m.

Saturday dence, 300A Brooklyn Avenue, SunCypress Hills Cemetery. for publication Sunday day, 2:30 p.m. Jurists at Rites For T. J. Brennan Elks Hold Services For Brother of Justice Members of the bench and bar and fraternal leaders today attended a solemn high requiem mass for Thomas J.

Brennan, prominent attorney and brother of Supreme Court Justice Philip A. Brennan, in the Queen of All Saints R. C. Church, Lafayette and Vanderbilt Aves. Mr.

Brennan, who died Monday in St. Peter's Hospital following a long illness, was 71. More than 200 persons, including 13 past exalted rulers, attended fraternal services sponsored by the Brooklyn Lodge, 22, B. P. O.

held last night at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place. The Rev. Raymond Dundon, assistant pastor of the Queen of All Saints R. C. Church, was the celebrant at this morning's mass.

Others who officiated were the Rev. Joseph T. Lamb as deacon and the Rev. Charles Boyd as sub deacon. Mr.

Brennan is survived by his widow, Martha J. Brennan; a son, Thomas J. Brennan Jr. of Hempstead: two brothers, Justice Brennan and Matthew F. Brennan, and three grandsons.

Interment was in the Holy Cross Cemetery. For many years Mr. Brennan had been actively identified with Brooklyn fraternal and communal life. He was a trustee of Brooklyn Lodge, a charter member and former commodore of the Bay Head Yacht Club and a member of the Society of Old Brooklynites, the Crescent Athletic Club and Champion Council, Royal Arcanum. Mrs.

Turney, 90, Dies Following Fall Special to the Brooklyn Eagle: Hempstead, Dec. 27-Mrs. Frances Turney, 90, of 49 Pennsylvania a resident of this village for 16 years, died Wednesday night in Nassau Hospital, Mineola, of injuries received a week ago from a fall downstairs in her home. She was the widow of Thomas J. Turney who died several years ago.

Despite her advanced age Mrs. Turney had remained active until the accident, taking daily walks from her residence to the village center. On her 90th birthday, last May 6, Mrs. Turney was interviewed by reporters and discussed incidents of the Civil War. She was a native of Paris, and lived there during the war.

Mrs. Turney made her home here with a daughter, Mrs. Emerson Strong. She also leaves two sons, James W. and Thomas both living in Illinois; six grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Ricardo Caimmi Balogna, Italy, Dec. 27 (U.P) -Riccardo Caimmi, 70, actor who had toured the principal stages of the world with the late Eleanora Duse, died yesterday. While in the United States with Duse, Caimmi left the stage to open an elocution school, which he conducted for some years. Wills Filed The following wills are on file today in Surrogate's Court: DUBERSTEIN, SOPHIE (Dec. 15).

Estate, not more than $10,000 real and more than $10,000 personal. To charitable institutions to be selected by the 1127 Grant a Bertha Barron, 135-21 executors. $250; sisters, Miriam Kasdan, 229th Laurelton; Celia Rogovin. 1397 268 Franklin 75th and Bronx, and Ida Botwinick. brother, Joe Goldberg, 1455 Townsend Bronx.

$200 each. Grandchildren, Cynthia and Elise Barnett, both of 3844 Nautilus and Stephen and Joan Seligman, $1,000 each in trust. income and principal at 18; daughters, Edith Seligman, all of 163 Ocean and Zena Halwer and Hannah Barnett, specific jewelry each. onethird interest each in money deposit with a specific organization, interest each in real estate and one-fifth of residue each. Sons, Mitchell Duberstein, all of 3844 Nautilus executor, and Wolfe Duberstein, 150 E.

18th executor, specific jewelry each, one-fourth interest each in real estate and one-fifth of residue each. SIRINE, ANNA J. (Oct. 15). Estate, more than $10,000 personal.

To husband, Alexander H. Sirine, 87 Hanson Place, brothers. William G. Yates. 18 Soper Baldwin, Edwin C.

Yates, executor, one-fourth ante residue each: sister, Minnie Y. Stevens. both of 87-84 165th Jamaica, specific jewelry and one-fourth of residue: niece. Doris E. Rhodes, 115-32 Mexico St.

Albans, specific jewelry and nephews, William C. Hurley, 5501 Miami Tampa, Robert S. Hurley, 4 Broadway, Jersey City, and George A. Hurley, 297 Lenox Road, one-twelfth of residue each. Letters of administration have been granted on these estates: COLLINS.

WALTER H. (Dec. 6). Estate, not more than $15.401 personal and not more than $1,400 real. To son.

Hugh P. Collins. 45 Aberdeen St. Other heirs, A son and a daughter. DEVLIN, ELIZABETH (Nov.

8). Estate, not more than $9,700 personal and not more than $5,000 real. To son. Terence E. Devin.

571 New York Ave. Other heirs. a son and A daughter. LYONS. FRANK (Aug.

17, 1921). Estate, not more than $125.000. To James A. Lyons. 1497 Jefferson Ave.

Mrs. Annie Zweig Mrs. Annie Zweig of 246 Sullivan Place, mother-in-law of Max Herzfeld, president of the Brooklyn ORT Society and secretary of the Brooklyn Jewish Center, died today at the Jewish Hospital after an illness of several weeks. She was A native of Austria and is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Herzfeld and a grandson, Stanley Herzfeld.

Services wil 1be held at 11 a.m. Sunday and interment will be in Union Field Cemetery. Spacious, Modern Chapel for Your Comfort GEORGE D. CONANT Moadinger Funeral Parlors 1120 Flatbush B'klyn Tel. BUckminster 2-0247 BROOKLYN EAGLE, FRIDAY, DEC.

27, 1940 13 ALFRED KOTTMILLER, 60; NOTED HORTICULTURIST Special to the Brooklyn Eagle Roslyn, Dec. 27-Alfred Kottmiller, noted horticulturist and treasurer of the International Flower Show Committee for the last 25 years, died yesterday at his home on Searingtown Road near here, following a heart attack, He was 60. Mr. Kottmiller won many prizes for his unusual designs in flower shows. He, was a member of Hortus, which presented the Gardens on Parade exposition at the World's Fair for two seasons.

In the 1935 exhibit of the national Flower Show, Mr. Kottmiller designed a Chinese garden Methodist Hospital Gets Big Bequest Industrialist Wills Fund For Rhodes Foundation Special to the Brooklyn Eagle: White Plains, Dec. 27-The late Richard W. Rhoades of Mount Vernon, founder and retired president of the R. W.

Rhoades Metaline Company, Long Island City, left more than $45,000 to institutions connected with the Methodist Church under the terms of his will. It was filed for probate with Surrogate Charles D. Millard here yesterday. Eleven relatives and friends also received individual bequests aggregating more than $66,000. The will gives all of Mr.

Rhoades' real estate and the residuary estate of more than $10,000 to the Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn to establish "the Richard W. and Martha C. Rhoades Foundation" in memory of the testator and his late wife. The following beneficiaries also were named: New York East Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, First Methodist Church, Jamaica, First Methodist Church, Mount Vernon, $5,000, Brooklyn and Long Island Church Society of the Methodist Church, Brooklyn, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Church, $5,000, and Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Church, $5.000. Bequests of $5,000 each were made to the American Red Cross and Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.

Mrs. Harry Peyser Funeral Rites Held Funeral services for Mrs. Betty A. Peyser, wife of Harry M. Peyser, chief estate tax attorney, and for many years active in charitable and community affairs, were held today at Union Temple, 17 Eastern way.

Interment followed in Washington Cemetery. Mrs. Peyser, who was widely known as a concert singer, died Tuesday in Long Island College Hospital after a long illness. She was 45. Dr.

Simon R. Cohen, rabbi emeritus of the temple, officiated during the services. He was assisted by Dr. Sidney Tedesche, rabbi of the congregation. Among the many friends and relatives who attended the services were officers of Union Temple, Transfer Tax Appraiser David F.

Soden, Deputy State Controller Abraham L. Doris, former Motor Vehicle Commissioner Henry B. Cocheu, Circuit Court Judge Emanuel Greenberg, Edward Devlin, associate attorney of the tax appraiser's office; Max Abelman, secretary to the president of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, former State Senator William L. Love, and Louis Wolff, chief clerk of the Children's Court. James F.

Kehoe James Francis Kehoe, assistant foreman of delivery for the New York World Telegram, died Wednesday night at his home, 91- 19 86th Woodhaven. He was 64. Mr. Kehoe in the circulation departments of New York newspapers for 0 years. that attracted considerable attention.

Another design acclaimed was a Japanese garden in the 1931 show. Born in Germany, he studied horticulture in Paris and London and then came to this country in 1913. He was the proprietor of two flower shops, one in the Hotel Roosevelt and the other in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Manhattan. He also maintained conservatory and a greenhouse near his home here. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Mary A. Kottmiller. Services will be held at the Christ Church, Manhasset, at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Edward Appel Streller, and a sister, Miss Anna Appel.

Services will be held at St. Andrew's Church, St. Nicholas Ave. and Harmon Ridgewood, at 4 p.m. Sunday.

"Taps" later in St. John's Cemetery in Queens. The body was escorted from the Napolitano home by the soldiers at 9:30 a.m., and the flag-draped casket was borne in a hearse to the R. C. Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Union Ave, and N.

8th where a requiem mass was sung. Napolitano is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Napolitano; four brothers, Carmine, Vincent, Raymond and John, and three sisters, Rose, Viola and Anna. RILEY-FLORENCE December 25, wife of Frank sister of Edward B. Ray.

Reposing at Stephen Merritt Memorial Chapel, 22d Street and 8th Avenue, N. Y. C. Requiem mass Church of the Guardian Angel, 10th Avenue and 21st Street, N. Y.

Saturday, 10 a.m. -HENRY entered into eternal rest December 25, 1940, beloved husband of Elizabeth M. Braun and brother of Edwin T. Robinson of Baldwin, L. I.

Services at his home, 647 East 34th Street, Friday, 8:30 p.m. Interment Evergreens Cemetery, aturday, 2:30 p.m. ROSENER On December 25, 1940, CATHERINE V. (nee Corcoran), beloved mother of Alexander Joseph John S. Rosener and sister of Mary Canavan and George Corcoran.

Funeral from Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Saturday, 9 a.m. Solemn requiem mass St. Teresa's Church at 9:30 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, SCHROEDER On Wednesday, December 25, 1940, MARIA, beloved mother of Mrs. Marie Broecker of Montclair, N.

and Henry Schroeder. Funeral services at the Funeral Home of George C. Herbst and Son, 6741 5th Avenue, near 68th Street, on Saturday, December 28. at 10 a.m. Interment Green- -Wood Cemetery.

SHANNON-JOHN December 25, 1940, beloved husband of Lillian; devoted father of Dorothy E. and John A. Funeral services at Walter B. Cooke, Inc. Funeral Home, 1218 Flatbush Avenue, Friday, 8 p.m.

Cremation at Fresh Pond Saturday, 10 a.m. STONEHILL--On Thursday, December 26, 1940, at Bridgeton, N. Mrs. E. D.

STONEHILL, formerly of 54 Monroe Street. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Saturday, at 3 p.m. Please omit flowers. WEEKS On Wednesday, December 25, 1940, FREDERICK beloved husband of Katherine Whittet Weeks and brother of Hattie Belle Miller of Washington, D.C. Service at his residence.

25 Lefferts Place, Friday, 8:30 p.m. -On December 25,1940, HELEN CORALIE at her residence, widow of A. Campbell Weston; sister of Augustus H. Fry. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Saturday, 2 p.m.

WESTON Daughters of the Revolution, Long Island State Society, announce with deep regret the death of a beloved member, Mrs. A. CAMPBELL WESTON. Mrs. Robert L.

German, Regent. Mrs. Vernon L. Cook, Cor, Sec. YUNKER-ROSE T.

(nee Hilz), on December 25, 1940, aged 56 years, beloved wife of John dear daughter of Rosa Hilz; sister of John F. Hilz. Funeral Saturday, 9 a.m., from her residence, 89-30 208th Street; thence to Church of the Incarnation. Mass, 10 a.m. Interment Most Holy Trinity Cemetery.

In Memoriam ADAMS NELLIE. In loving memory of a devoted wife and mother who passed away December 27. 1939. Oh for the clasp of A loving hand, A dear face I loved to see. A tender heart, A pleasant smile.

Which meant so much to HUSBAND and SON. ROBINSON CLIFFORD L. Loving memory of dear husband. Passed away December 27, 1939. wife, CHARLOTTE.

Albert J. Keene, 64, Jamaica Attorney Employed 35 Years By Lawyer's Title Corp. Albert James Keene, an attorney, of 195 Weirfield who was associated with the Jamaica office of the Lawyer's Title Corporation, died yesterday at his home after brief illness, He was 64. Mr. Keene had been with the title concern for 35 years, joining 1t on March 10, 1905, and was attached to the Brooklyn office before he went to the Jamaica office a few years ago.

He was an expert title reader. A lifelong resident of Brooklyn, he was graduated from New York University Law School in 1900. Surviving are his widow, Susan E. Keene; a daughter, Margaret Helen, and three sisters, Mrs. Lola Robinson, Mrs.

Elizabeth Lindsey and Mrs. Jennie C. Greenwood. Services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow.

Final Rites Held For Mrs. Tatum Special to the Brooklyn Eagle: Long Beach, Dec. 27-Funeral services were held in the People's Church here yesterday for Mrs. Edna A. Tatum, 48, founder of Long Beach Lodge, Order of Eastern Star; its first matron and for many years district deputy for the order in Nassau County.

Mrs. Tatum, who died in Long Beach Hospital on Tuesday, was former secretary to the Civil Service Commission of this city. Surviving are her husband, Walter a son, Walter A. and a daughter, June Tatum. Burial was in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead.

Woman, 60, on Crutches Killed Crossing Street Special to the Broolilyn Eagle: White Plains, Dec. 27-Mrs. Mabel Crawford, 60, of 1055 Halsey Brooklyn, was fatally injured by an automobile last night as she was crossing the street on crutches in front of the Presbyterian Rest, convalescent home at 69 N. Broadway, where she had been a patient. Capt.

Hubert M. Cole, attached to the 99th Field Artillery at Edgewood Arsenal driver of the car, was paroled on a charge of homicide pending an inquest today. He told police he did not see the woman until after the impact, Sir William Godchild London, Dec. 27 (AP)-Sir William A Alfred Cecil assistant director of the food ministry since 1939, died today. He was 55 years old.

Sir William entered the Scottish office of the British Civil Service in 1909, and was made its assistant secretary in 1926. In 1936 he was made secretary of the Scottish Economic Committee and 1 of the mittee on the highlands and islands. He also served on Britain's delegations to the World War reparations commission, and to the Hague conferences of 1929 and 1930. Fliers to Drop Roses Today On Eddie Schneider's Grave Friends will drop roses from the air after the burial of Eddie Schneider, flying instructor at Floyd Bennett Field and aviator in the Spanish civil war, at the Fairview Cemetery, North Bergen, N. today.

Schneider, an Instructor at the Archie Baxter Flying School, was killed last Monday when his plane crashed after colliding with a Navy plane at the field. More than 120 persons, Including AUCTION SALE SALES C. H. ADELMAN, AUCTIONEER, sells January 2, 1941, at 4:00 p.m.. at 175 Atlantic Brooklyn, all luncheonette fixtures, appurtenances, chattels, as listed in three conditional gales contracts, retaken from Brandon Cigar Luncheonette Julius Schwartz.

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d27-2t many noted fliers, attended services last night in Jersey City. The Rev. Dr. Horace Ford Martin, president of the New York Biblical Seminary, officiated. Among those present were Bert Acosta.

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