Percy Coplon, 53, who died after 92 days of fasting, will be buried at 2 p.m. Sunday in Knesseth-Israel Cemetery after a funeral service at Brown Service Norwood Chapel. Rabbi Abraham mesch will officiate.
He died at 12:20 a.m. Friday a short time after he collapsed in his home. He began his 100 day fast on August 25 and was scheduled to break his fast by taking small amounts of fresh orange juice late next week.
Some 80 days of the record-breaking fast were spent in a special "fast house" which he had mounted on a 30-foot street pole. He announced last Sunday he would complete his fast on the ground because he was too dizzy to climb back up after coming down for exercise.
Surviving are his widow, Flora Coplon; daughter, Hilda; sisters, Annie Goldstein and Jeannie Rimick, both of Birmingham; and brother, Dr. A.G. Coplon of Chicago, Illinois.
-- Published November 27, 1949 in the Birmingham News
He died at 12:20 a.m. Friday a short time after he collapsed in his home. He began his 100 day fast on August 25 and was scheduled to break his fast by taking small amounts of fresh orange juice late next week.
Some 80 days of the record-breaking fast were spent in a special "fast house" which he had mounted on a 30-foot street pole. He announced last Sunday he would complete his fast on the ground because he was too dizzy to climb back up after coming down for exercise.
Surviving are his widow, Flora Coplon; daughter, Hilda; sisters, Annie Goldstein and Jeannie Rimick, both of Birmingham; and brother, Dr. A.G. Coplon of Chicago, Illinois.
-- Published November 27, 1949 in the Birmingham News
Percy Coplon, 53, who died after 92 days of fasting, will be buried at 2 p.m. Sunday in Knesseth-Israel Cemetery after a funeral service at Brown Service Norwood Chapel. Rabbi Abraham mesch will officiate.
He died at 12:20 a.m. Friday a short time after he collapsed in his home. He began his 100 day fast on August 25 and was scheduled to break his fast by taking small amounts of fresh orange juice late next week.
Some 80 days of the record-breaking fast were spent in a special "fast house" which he had mounted on a 30-foot street pole. He announced last Sunday he would complete his fast on the ground because he was too dizzy to climb back up after coming down for exercise.
Surviving are his widow, Flora Coplon; daughter, Hilda; sisters, Annie Goldstein and Jeannie Rimick, both of Birmingham; and brother, Dr. A.G. Coplon of Chicago, Illinois.
-- Published November 27, 1949 in the Birmingham News
He died at 12:20 a.m. Friday a short time after he collapsed in his home. He began his 100 day fast on August 25 and was scheduled to break his fast by taking small amounts of fresh orange juice late next week.
Some 80 days of the record-breaking fast were spent in a special "fast house" which he had mounted on a 30-foot street pole. He announced last Sunday he would complete his fast on the ground because he was too dizzy to climb back up after coming down for exercise.
Surviving are his widow, Flora Coplon; daughter, Hilda; sisters, Annie Goldstein and Jeannie Rimick, both of Birmingham; and brother, Dr. A.G. Coplon of Chicago, Illinois.
-- Published November 27, 1949 in the Birmingham News
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