The family lived overseas, where the father died from complications of diabetes. According to the mother, he was a wonderful husband and father, very attached to the Land of Israel, the Jewish people, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the coming of Moshiach. He loved his extended family and was very funny, to the point of tears. The family holds to their faith that they will be reunited with him in the resurrection of the dead, speedily and without delay.