Louis / Lippman was a butcher in Warrenton and was married to Rosa Goldstuck. Louis was born in 1870 in Sasmaken to Leibe and Freide Edelstein. He arrived in South Africa from Courland in 1900. Prior to being naturalized in 1908, and settling in Warrenton, he spent time in Kimberley, Boshoff, Christiana, the Orange River Colony, the Transvaal. Louis was 32 when naturalized. He was a baker and a butcher. The Goldstuck family also hailed from Latvia. They had four children: Jean, Herman Naphtali (Harry Nathan), Leon (Bob), Lilly (married to Joseph Blumberg). His brother Morris (born in 1881) farmed in the Vryburg district and was a bachelor. Louis was heavily invested in diamond fields and when diamond prices crashed, during the Great Depression, he lost his fortune and could no longer maintain his way of life. He was forced to sell many possessions. Devastated and depressed, he died soon after, in 1933. He was buried in Vryburg. Though Kimberley was the logical place to be buried, being closer to Kimberley, the fact that his younger brother Morris and Lilly daughter were in Vryburg probably settled that matter. Lilly married Joseph Blumberg in 1938.

 

His brother Morris was a cattle farmer and passed away in 1964. He moved to Sandringham Gardens not long before he died. Prior to his retirement he lived at the International Hotel. Graham Brodovcky recounts an amusing anecdote related to Morris. Morris used to go on long morning walks and then sit in the park opposite the Town Hall. One morning he left his favorite hat on the bench and asked the hotel staff to go and look for it. A few hours later a staff member informed Graham's father as follows: "Meneer Brodovcky, ek was by Standard Bank, Barclays Bank en Volkas Bank. Nie een get do hoed gesien nie!" In English: "Mr. Brodovcky, I went to Standard Bank, Barclays Bank and Volkas Bank. None have seen the hat in question!"