Menu JTA Search  Edith Lehman Dead at 86  Funeral services will
be held here tomorrow for Mrs. Edith Altschul Lehman, a leading
philanthropist who died yesterday at the age of 86. Mrs. Lehman
was the widow of the late Herbert H. Lehman who served as
Governor of New York and later as United States Senator. Mrs.
Lehman, who was born in San Francisco and educated at private
schools, married Mr. Lehman in 1910.  She joined her husband in
various philanthropic activities including the work of the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the United Jewish Appeal
and the cause of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Following Mr.
Lehman’s death in 1963, she contributed $100,000 to the UJA in
his memory and made substantial gifts to other institutions,
Jewish and non-Jewish. At the time of her death. Mrs. Lehman was
an honorary trustee of the Mount Sinai Medical Center with which
she had been associated since 1921.