Solomon Kivel Succumbs

Solomon Kivel, who owned the jewelry firm, S. Kivel & Co., in the Commerce Title Building, passed away Wednesday, at Baptist Hospital.

Mr. Kivel was born in Russia 65 years ago. He formerly lived in New York City and had been in business in Memphis for the past 16 years. He was a member of B’nai B’rith Congregation and the United Friends in New York and was a Mason and a Shriner. At the time of his death, he made his home at the Claridge Hotel, but he had formerly lived on Washington Street for a number of years.

Mr. Kivel is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mildred Kivel, of New York; his son, Morton Kivel, of Tyler, Texas, his daughter, Mrs. Irving Kraus, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; his brother, Charles Kivel, of Memphis, his three sisters, Mrs. Bessie Levitch of Memphis; Mrs. Louis Hirsch and Mrs. Sam Glass, of Brooklyn, and two grandchildren.

Services were held Friday morning with Rabbi Isadore Goodman and Cantor Hirsch Gornicki officiating. Interment was in Beth El Emeth Cemetery.

Hebrew Watchman

January 12, 1956, page 2