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Minna Dorn Mendelssohn

Birth
Germany
Death
6 Jul 1949 (aged 88–89)
Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Burial
Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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Mrs. MINNA DORN MENDELSSOHN -- Funeral services for Mrs. Minna Dorn Mendelssohn, who was a friend of Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms, will be held at 10.30 a.m. Saturday. Burial in Baltimore Cemetery.

Mrs. Mendelssohn, who died suddenly yesterday morning at her home, 332 Whitridge Avenue, was 89. Born in Germany she married Ludwig Mendelssohn, who was director of the Conservatory of Music in Berline. After his death in 1921 she moved to Amsterdam and in 1939 she came to Baltimore to live with her son, Felix Robert Mendelssohn, cellist, and grandnephew of the noted composer.

In addition to Felix Mendelssohn, she is survived by another son, Walter Mendelssohn, of NY, a writer, and a granddaugher, Mrs. Albert Goldsmith, and a grandson, of New York.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) July 7, 1949
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MENDELSSOHN -- On July 6, 1949, MINNA, of 332 Whiteridge Avenue, mother of Felix R. and Walter Mendelssohn.

Funeral services at the Wm. Cook Mansion. Interment in Baltimore Cemetery.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) July 7, 1949
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Mrs. MINNA DORN MENDELSSOHN -- Funeral services for Mrs. Minna Dorn Mendelssohn, who was a friend of Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms, will be held at 10.30 a.m. Saturday. Burial in Baltimore Cemetery.

Mrs. Mendelssohn, who died suddenly yesterday morning at her home, 332 Whitridge Avenue, was 89. Born in Germany she married Ludwig Mendelssohn, who was director of the Conservatory of Music in Berline. After his death in 1921 she moved to Amsterdam and in 1939 she came to Baltimore to live with her son, Felix Robert Mendelssohn, cellist, and grandnephew of the noted composer.

In addition to Felix Mendelssohn, she is survived by another son, Walter Mendelssohn, of NY, a writer, and a granddaugher, Mrs. Albert Goldsmith, and a grandson, of New York.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) July 7, 1949
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MENDELSSOHN -- On July 6, 1949, MINNA, of 332 Whiteridge Avenue, mother of Felix R. and Walter Mendelssohn.

Funeral services at the Wm. Cook Mansion. Interment in Baltimore Cemetery.

Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) July 7, 1949
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