Elinor M. Funk; Ex-President of Newspaper Company
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Elinor M. Funk, 90, one-time Santa Monica philanthropist and former president of the company that owned The (Santa Monica) Outlook for many years. She served on the board of directors of the Santa Monica College Foundation for 25 years and took an active role in selecting scholarship recipients. Her family purchased the Evening Outlook in 1932 and when her husband died in 1962 she became president of the newspaper company until it was sold in 1983. In Bronxville, N.Y., on June 12.
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