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Lazarus and Leah Falowitz (probably Falovich) owned the store at Pudimoe, not far from Vryburg, on the train and road to Kimberley. Leah was a Horwitz and here Hebrew name was Sarah Leah bat Moshe. The couple had five children, Cecilia (married to Louis Michelow), Betty (Lipschitz), Abraham, Molly and Jack. Lazarus died in Cape Town on 19 February 1928 at Monte Rosa Nursing Home. He was 60 at his death. He took over the trading station in May 1917 from an A. Solomon. Lazarus Falowitz drew up his last will and testament in 1917. He lived and traded at Pudimoe for at least a decade at Pudimoe. He operated the store under an entity registered as L. Falowitz and Son. Later, that same store belonged to the Wolperts. 

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From the UCT Rootsbank site we learn that he was born in Vidukele or Vidukle in Lithuania in 1869 and he reached South Africa in 1897. At the time of his naturalization, in 1905, he was 36 years old living in Beaconsfield. Leah passed away in Port Elizabeth in 1940 at the age of 69.