Rebbetzin Rochel Kviat, 96, OBM

Rebbetzin Rochel Kviat (nee Chaiton), a beloved mother and grandmother, passed away on Shabbos, 3 Nissan, 5783.

She was 96.

Rebbetzin Kviat was raised in Montreal and later moved to New York, where she raised a large beautiful family.

She was known for her kind personality and for always having a smile for others.

Her mother Rivkah Chaiton raised her, with her siblings, Mottel Chaiton, Aaron Chaiton, Velvel Chaiton and Bashe Schuchat, as frum Jews in Montreal, with mesiras nefesh to be frum during a time when there was little Yiddishkeit in the city.

Rebbetzin Kviat would recall the time her mother got a brachah from the Lubavitcher Rebbe that her children and grandchildren should be better than their parents. The family’s connection to Lubavitch went back to World War II, when the group of bochurim arrived in Montreal, via Shanghai, and they became close to her grandfather, Yosef Levi Shano.

After they opened the first full-time yeshivah in Montreal, Rebbetzin Kviat’s brother, Aaron Chaiton, was sent to learn in the Lubavitch Yeshivah.

She is survived by her children Reb Noach Schwartz of Boro Park, Mrs. Janie Friedman of Lakewood, Mrs. Chaya Siegal of Chicago, Mrs. Devorah Scherman of Passaic, and Mrs. Rivky Senderovitz of Lakewood.

The levaya will be held today at 11:30 a.m., at the Congregation Sons of Israel Holocaust Memorial Chapel, 613 Ramsey Avenue in Lakewood, and then from Agudath Israel of Eighteenth Avenue, 5413 18th Ave, at 1:30 PM.

Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.