John Louis "Bebe" Morlas, Sr.

1891 - 1963  (72 years)

• Name	John Louis "Bebe" Morlas  [1]
  Suffix	Sr.
  Nickname	Bebe
  Born	22 Jan 1891	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Nov 1963	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1, 2]
  Buried	Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
  Notes	Morlas-On Wednesday, November 27, 1963 at 7 o'clock p.m. JOHN LOUIS MORLAS SR., husband of Antoinette Trapani, father of John L. and Paul M. Morlas of Granada Hills, Calif. Brother of Mrs. E. G. Zahn, Mrs. A. Trapani, Mrs. G. Quinn, Mrs. C. Bishop; in religion Sr. M Cyril RSM; Mrs. K. Carpenter of Woodward, Oklahoma, Mrs. E Schoenfeld and Mrs. A. Rohli, Louis, Leon, and Paul Morlas and the late Mrs. Leon Bordes, son of the late Lucine Roquevert and John Morlas. Also survived by 6 grandchildren, aged 72 years. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services from the home ot Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Inc. 4127 S. Claiborne Ave. (parking entrance adjoining), on Saturday morning, November 30, 1963, at 9 o'clock, followed by Requiem High Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church. Interment Metairie Cemetery. (Obituary courtesy of Keith McGuire)
  Person ID	I974	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	John Dominic Morlas,   b. 25 Aug 1865, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 14 Feb 1923, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Lucine Roquevert,   b. 28 Jan 1869, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 16 Feb 1946, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  (Age 77 years)
  Married	28 May 1888	St. Stephen's Church, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Photos		Morlas Family Reunion, New Orleans, 1987 Over 120 family members were present for this reunion, most of them descended from John Dominic Morlas and Lucine Roquevert of New Orleans
  Albums		Morlas Siblings & Cousins Reunions (9) Held in New Orleans starting in 1927
  Family ID	F176	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Antoinette Trapani,   b. 9 Feb 1900, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 18 Oct 1976, Folsom, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana  (Age 76 years)
  Married	25 Jun 1919	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Children	1. John Louis Morlas, Jr.,   b. 29 Jul 1920, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 19 Jan 1923, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  (Age 2 years)   2. John Louis Morlas, Jr.,   b. 23 Feb 1924, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 9 Oct 1979, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  (Age 55 years)   3. Living
  Photos		Trapani, Antoinette 1919 marriage to John Louis Morlas Antoinette and John Louis were married on June 25, 1919 in New Orleans. Her brother, August, married John Louis Morlas's sister, Estelle, less than three months later.
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006
  Family ID	F713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 22 Jan 1891 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Married - 25 Jun 1919 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Died - 27 Nov 1963 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Buried - - Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos » Slide Show		Morlas Siblings Children of John Morlas and Lucine Roquevert Back Row: Leon Morlas, Juliet Morlas, Paul Morlas, Jennie (Morlas) Bishop, John Morlas, Leontine (Morlas) Zahn, Eleanor (Morlas) Rohli, Louis Morlas. Front Stella (Morlas) Trapani, Vivian (Morlas) Schoenfeld, Josephine (Morlas) McGuire, and Lucille (Morlas) Quinn. Only their sister Clothilde (Morlas) Bordes was missing. Since Clothilde had died in 1938, the photo was presumably taken after this date. It could very well have been taken at their 1951 reunion.
  		Morlas Men, ca 1951 This photo was probably taken in the early 1950's apparently at a reunion. Back (left to right): Buddy Maumus? (ASSUMED), Carl Bishop, Grady Quinn, James ?Red? Johnson, John Morlas, Louis Morlas, Paul Morlas, Alvin "Abby" Rohli. Front (left to right): Johnny Trapani, Charles Myers holding daughter Margo, Claude Bishop, Emile ?Mitz? Martin, Leon Morlas, Edward Bordes, Leon Bordes PLEASE HELP US IDENTIFY THE UNKNOWN or UNCERTAIN PEOPLE.
  		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  		Morlas, John "Bebe" with his namesake grandson, John ca 1951 Bennie Zahn writes that "in 1951 Mom and I took the Sunset Limited train to California to visit John and Antoinette in Burbank, California. We were there for 11 days, and then went onto Canada for a tour. I took this snapshot of Uncle John "Bebe" with his grandson, John Robert Morlas, who was born in 1949."

  
  

  Headstones

  Morlas Mausoleum, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans This mausoleum was erected in the Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans at the death of John Dominic Morlas in 1923. It also became the final resting place of his wife, Lucine Roquevert, and their children: John Louis & wife Antoinette (Trapani) Morlas, Clothilde & husband Leon Bordes, Estelle & husband August Trapani, Louis & wife Lenora (Christoffer) Morlas, Leopold "Paul" & wife Olie (Roberts) Morlas, Vivian & husband Eugene Schoenfeld; as well as the resting place of several of John Dominic's grandsons; John Louis (I) Morlas Jr., Bertrand C. Morlas, John Louis (II) Morlas Jr., Sylvan "Brother" Bordes and Eugene "Jim" Schoenfeld, Jr. More so than any city this side of Paris, New Orleans is renowned for its historically significant and ornate necropolises. One of the parish's most unique "Cities of the Dead" is the eerily beautiful and diverse Metairie Cemetery. Built over the old Metairie Race Course, the cemetery was founded by Charles T. Howard. According to legend, when Howard was not allowed to join the country club that owned the track, he vowed it would become a cemetery. Many other famous Louisianans are interred here, in structures ranging from Gothic crypts to Romanesque mausoleums to Egyptian pyramids

  
  

• Sources

  [S479] Zahn, Bennie Jay--The Families Pene Roquevert Morlas (Privately Published; New Orleans, LA 1992) , updates and corrections issued periodically. [S333] Ancestry.com - U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current [database online], (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence.).