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N.Y.TIMES
5/16/49

Mrs.O.H.KAHN DIES;
WIDOW OF BANKER

Shared Musical and Artistic Interests of Her Husband, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Partner

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES,

LONDON, May 15-Mrs. Addie Wolff Kahn, Widow of Otto H. Kahn, New York banker and patron of the arts, died here in Claridge's Hotel early this morning of a heart attack suffered last evening. She was 73 years old.

Mrs. Kahn, who arrived in London on April 28 from New York, was intending to leave today for Paris. A maid was packing for the trip last night when Mrs. Kahn was taken ill. Her son-in-law and daughter, Major Gen. and Mrs. J. C. O. Marriott, were called from their home, near the hotel. Mrs. Kahn was unconscious after the attack and died peacefully four hours later.

Mrs. Kahn's body will be taken by air to New York a week from today and a funeral service will be held in the United states.

Shared Husband's Interests

Mrs. Kahn had shared the musical, artistic and philanthropic interests of her husband, senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., private bankers, and chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Opera Association, and she continued these interests after his death in 1934.

The daughter of the late Abraham Wolff of Morristown, N. J., and New York, a partner in Kuhn, Loeb &Co., and Mrs. Wolff, Mrs. Kahn received much of her schooling abroad. She was married to Mr. Kahn in 1896.

Mrs. Kahn had been a director of the Metropolitan Opera Association and a former president and director of the Manhattan School of Music. She had served as a vice president of the Rachmaninoff Memorial Fund and as president of the National Music League.

She was a patroness of the Queens Symphony Society, a member of the old Society of the Friends of Music, a contributor to the Town Hall Endowment Fund, a lay member of the Grand Central Art Galleries and a member of the honorary committee of "Masterpieces of Art," exhibited at the New York World's Fair. 

With her husband and after his death, she had given many dinners in connection with musical and other artistic events and charities. 

Mrs. Kahn had been a director of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and had served on its welfare committee, a patroness of the Women's Trade Union League, and a supporter of the Country Home for Convalescent Babies at Sea Cliff, L. I., and the Huntington (L. I.) Hospital. 

On Milk Inquiry Group 

Formerly active in the Federation of Women's Clubs she had served on the state committee to investigate the New York milk situation in 1939. Last year Mrs. Kahn had served on the executive committee of the New York Women's Division of the Committee for the Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery. 

Before the sale of her country home at Woodbury, L. I., in 1939 she had exhibited at the International Flower Show, where she won a gold medal for her garden in 1928. 

A regular ocean traveler, Mrs. Kahn, on her return from Egypt in 1942, had a hazardous voyage through the South Atlantic from West Africa on the Santa Paula which was attacked twice by a submarine but successfully dodged the torpedoes. 

The Kahn home at Fifth Avenue and Ninety-first Street was sold for use by the Academy of the Sacred Heart shortly the death of Mr. Kahn. She lived here at 25 Sutton Place. 

Besides her daughter, Mrs. Marriott, she also leaves two sons, Gilbert Wolff Kahn of New York, a partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Roger Wolff Kahn of Syosset, L. I., service manager and test pilot with the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation and former orchestra leader; another daughter, Mrs. John Barry Ryan Jr. of Newport, R. I., and seven grandchildren. 

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