Harry Seelig; Active in Jewish Homes for Aging for 50 Years
Harry B. Seelig, an attorney who served the Jewish Homes for the Aging of Greater Los Angeles for more than 50 years, twice as the organization’s president, was killed Monday in a traffic accident. He was 82 and at his death was secretary and legal adviser to the Jewish Homes, one of the largest residential care facilities for the aged in the United States.
Seelig, president of the Homes in 1955 and 1956, led a local band as a youth before obtaining a law degree. In 1962 he was named “Man of the Year” by the Ida Mayer Cummings Auxiliary, a support group for Jewish Homes named in honor of the sister of movie mogul Louis B. Mayer. In 1969 a nursing building at the Jewish Homes facility in Reseda was named for Seelig and his wife, Muriel.
His other survivors include a son, Philip, a sister, Beatrice, and a grandson.
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