#1083a Herald obituary article "Mother of Miami Beach" Rose Weiss 8/8/1974
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..- known as the. "Mother of In the. 1920s, she "Y.a..sin-. _.paid_t.ribute_tO-her_by,,;,,,,wdl,-. ":'~'~~RiF
Miami Beach" arid "Une- stnimentilJ in- e/itablishing ing 1I poem entitled "'An f~:n~~~
lected Eighth' Councilman." the firstpublicpaoc=oI1=" .,,,QQ.~.!Q,~.Bosi~/',..~L~l~,...en- _ -jlst~~
-dllld-Tuesday' in the Jewish MiamI,' . Beach, near Wash- couraged her to contlllue Service.
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Home for the Age~. ington Avenue and Third . er CIVIC IOVO vemen , 'RIV.ER~
Candidates for office in Street. She is survived by two CARSe
Miami Beach sought her ad- After the 1926 hurricane; SOliS, Milton, presi~e!l..L oL 'HOW~R
. h her home became a Red. Financial Federal' Savings Tues. ^
vice over t e years. and Loan Association of r~lher,
"SI1e-was-m,-e a mother Cross..emergenG.y.-staUon.--,- -~.----- .. .-.-----.------- ..bluish
Loss of power following the Miami Beach! and Eugene: ~~ aas
to me and to everyone who a daughter, Mrs. Malvina . Guard,
k h" M' . B I hurricane prompted her to .. "wlll be
newer, laml eae 1 Liebman', five grandchil- week ~
.M help lead an effort to get
ayor Chuck Hall said. dren', one great-ar,andchild', dSt8,nceAbo,
. bottled gas supplied to c'
... Anyone who had a proj- :md three sistets." Mrs-:Belln . -manls-t
Miami Beach so that 'people
lem or needed to know the Feld, Mrs. Bessie Jacoby NE
f I' f th I f would have cooking fuel. 1333 D~d.
ee mg 0 e ' peop e 0 Mrs. Weiss helped start and Mrs. Sadie Glass.
Miami Beach went to Ros:f', the first social welfare or- Services .will be at 12:30
as we callep her. She aJ. ganization in Miami' Beach, Rose Weiss p,m. today at the Riverside
, ways had her fing~~ on the taking food baskets to the ... 'uneleceed councilman' Alton Road Chapel.
. pulse of the people. poor at Thanksgiving and (y The-'family'reqiJ"ests nie:-
. s-t!8Tm:d L1!~ was also In- pilsl dlrecLul uf Ptoneernt--m6l'ialH6-4i~he-J
.-. title of-unelected council- volved with the.. organiza- Miami,. Inc. ish Home for the Aged, or ~~~:e~
man because "she never tion of several Jewish social When Mrs. Weiss retired the Hebrew Academy, or to owner
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,:m,issed a meeting," said antfivic elubs, a!1d was a to the Jewish Home for the Mount Sinai Hospital. ~:::;~'
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ick. "She was always there .______hm._.u_._.__,;_-.____.____ ~~f.:m.
in the front row, and__when n -Servl~
e-spo -up;-'she-gotllMi - -ment e
tion. We always knew she welcom
~nOcfetecH>ress--wa~aking-in-the-pubtic NEW-Y6RK (AP) the thst p1ofessor' 'of---an
interest," ' Dr. Virginia Apgar, devel- esthesiology there. She esti-
Councilman Leo n a r doper of the "Apgar Score' ,mate recent y t at sea
Weinstein said, "She was that evauJates newborn in- assisted in the delivery of
'tiriaouotedly one of the fants, died Wednesday. She more than 17,000 babies.
g rea t ladies of Miami was 65, A person of many inter-
Beach, She was something The test, routinely used ests. she played the. yiola
o( a matriarch. She was a in delivery rooms, provide,> with symphony orchestras
leader of innovations in the norms forphysiCiansto and was a member of ama-
school board, and helped quickly judge the health of teur chamber music groups.
see that Miami Beach devel- an infant. It involves meas- She was also a ,member of
oped the way it did." uring an infant's heart rate, the Gatgut Accoustical So-
Mrs. Weiss, was born in respiration, muscle tone, re- ciety, a group that made its
Mezerich, Russia, and came flexes and color 60 seconds own string instruments.
to New York with her fami- after birth and again four She is _ survived m by a
W- during the--pogroms. In minutes later. brother, L a w~ r e ne e C.
I !:f2U she moved to Miami Dr. Apgar was a senior Apgar, of Pocono Lakes,
vice president for medical 1\.1 J
affairs of --th-e~ionar'--P'. ..
C Re nold Foundation-March of
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lW they were ., _ .___ --. _~lCaLC.e*r. where she - ~ote .' ~.A.p
e a second bad been undergoing diag- -1~ Ul'eU u..i1lo..U'
first WClS al. .1.loII.cem.._ an. nastie tests. The exact
1 . . . _ cause of death was not im-
me<liately known, he said.
Charles R ReynnJQ~. 88,. Dr-Apgat-WaJ-aliO ca-
a retired Miami policeottP author-pnhe Dook, "Is My
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CHICAGO - (AP)
Jazz great Eugene--{Jug)
funmons, known for his
earthy, blues.rooted. tenor
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most of the great jazz fig-
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