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Philip Soltoff | Jewelry store owner, 78

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Philip Soltoff, 78, a former Philadelphia jewelry store owner, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Sunday at Menorah House, a nursing home in Boca Raton, Fla. He lived in Lake Worth, Fla.

Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Soltoff graduated from Overbrook High School and attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Textile Institute, now Philadelphia University.

Mr. Soltoff operated his own general insurance agency from the 1960s through the 1980s in Center City, said his wife, Elaine, and later operated a financial firm in the building that he owned at 18th and Chestnut Streets.

His last venture, Soltoff Jewelers, was on Eighth Street between Chestnut and Sansom Streets.

Mr. Soltoff was a president of the Pannonia Beneficial Association in Feasterville, a board member of the Pannonia Credit Union, and a board member of Temple Menorah. He was a Mason.

Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, Paul; daughters Bev Batt and Cindy; a brother; and three grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Sunday at Goldsteins' Rosenberg's Raphael-Sacks, 6410 N. Broad St., with burial in Montefiore Cemetery, Jenkintown.