Obituaries
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JEAN WEISS, 92, of Southfield,
died July 21, 2007.
She is survived by her son
and daughter-in-law, Arthur
and Trudy Weiss of Farmington
Hills; daughter and son-in-law,
Dottie and Donald Wagner of
West Bloomfield; brother and
sister-in-law, Morris and Phyllis
Friedman; brothers-in-law and
sisters-in-law, Eugene and Ellen
Weiss, Fred and Gloria Weiss,
Leo Weiss; grandchildren,
Sheri Wagner, Amy and Jeremy
Biloon, Aaron Weiss, Rachel
and Benjamin Berger, Leah
Weiss; great-grandchild, Alyson
Tedi Biloon; many loving cous-
ins, nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Weiss was the beloved
wife of the late Theodore Weiss;
loving daughter of the late
Avrohom Friedman, the late
Soroh Friedman; dear sister
of the late Irving Friedman,
the late Erwin Friedman, the
late Pinchas Friedman, the
late Kalman Friedman, the
late Evelyn Moss, the late
Lillian Bruch, the late Annette
Englander; dear sister-in-law of
the late Harry and the late Gizi
Weiss, the late Emma Weiss, the
late Roshie Weisberger, the late
Vilmosh Weisberger, the late
Emil Weiss.
Contributions may be
made to Jewish Hospice &
Chaplaincy Network, Partners
in Torah, Hillel Day School,
Yeshivas Darchei Torah or
Frankel Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan Detroit. Services
and interment at Clover Hill
Park Cemetery. Arrangements
by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
Correction
• The obituary for Sidney
Seidman, (July 19) should have
indicated that he was the broth-
er of the late Ruth Wald.
Australian Jewish Leader
Is Given State Funeral
S
ydney, Australia/JTA — A veteran
Australian Jewish community leader
and former cabinet minister in the
Victorian Parliament received a
state funeral July 26.
Walter Jona, who was credited
with making Victoria the first state
in the world where wearing seat
belts was mandatory, died from
cancer Sunday night, July 22, 2007.
He was 81.
Jona was awarded an Order of
Australia in 1986, in particular for
his services to the Jewish com-
munity. He was former chair of the
Walter Jona
Victorian Union for Progressive
Judaism, former president of the
Victorian Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen
and former president of the Australian Friends
of Tel Aviv University.
Jona, a Liberal Party member of Parliament
from 1964 to 1985, was chairing the Road Safety
Committee when it recommended making seat
belts compulsory in 1970. It would take more
than a decade before Britain and the United
States followed suit.
In an interview last year to mark
the launch of his autobiography,
People, Parliament & Politics, Jona
told the Australian Jewish News:
"Rescuing people's lives or giving
them the strength to cope with
their burdens was a theme that has
run through my public life because
it reminds me of the Talmudic say-
ing that is sometimes associated
with Magen David Adom: 'He who
saves a life, it is as if he has saved
the world,' " said Jona, who was
chair of MDA in Australia for 40 years. Magen
David Adorn is Israel's emergency ambulance
and blood donation service.
Jona was also appointed Victoria's first-ever
ethnic affairs minister in 1976.
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