OBIT: Isador E. PHILO, 1948, formerly of Altoona, Blair County, PA

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DR. I. E. PHILO, FORMER RABBI IN CITY, DIES

  Dr. Isador E. Philo, retired rabbi of Rodef Sholom temple, Youngstown, O., 
and a former Altoonan who also served the Temple Beth Israel congregation 
here during several of the World war II years, died in his sleep of a heart 
ailment at 7.30 o'clock Saturday morning, July 17, at his home in Youngstown.  
He would have been 75 years old on July 24.
  Rabbi Philo had been a prominent figure in the religious, civic and 
community life of Youngstown for some 37 years, serving as rabbi of Rodef 
Sholom temple from 1911 to 1942.  In April he suffered a serious heart attack 
and was hospitalized until May.  Ill health had compelled him to curtail his 
activities in 1942.
  He was born in Cardiff, Wales, one of 11 children of Rabbi and Mrs. Solon 
Solomon Philo.  He was the seventh generation on his father's side and the 
fifth on his mother's side to be a rabbi.  He went to school in England as a. 
. . .

Altoona Mirror, Thursday, July 29, 1948, pages 1, 26

Remainder of obituary appears on page that is missing from bound volume.