Clothilde Marie Morlas

1893 - 1938  (44 years)

• Name	Clothilde Marie Morlas  [1]
  Born	27 Dec 1893	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	2 Oct 1938	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Buried	Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
  Notes	BORDES-At the residence, 6326 South Tonti street, on Sunday, October 2, 1938, at 4 o'clock p.m., CLOTHILDE MORLAS, beloved wife of Leon BORDES, daughter of Lucine ROQUEVERT and the late John MORLAS, mother of Leontine, Rita, Leon, Edward and Leonard BORDES, sister of Mrs. E.G. ZAHN, Mrs. A.G. TRAPANI, Mrs. J.G. QUINN of Sturgis, Miss., Mrs. C.D. BISHOP, Sister Mary Cyril, R.S.M., Mrs. K.D. McGuire of Camargo, Ok., Mrs. E.N. Schoenfeld, Mrs. A. ROHLI, and John, Louis, Leon and Paul MORLAS. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, which will take place from the home of Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp, Inc., 4127 South Claiborne avenue, near Milan street, on Tuesday morning, October 4, 1938, at 10 o'clock, followed by requiem mass at St. Rita's church Broad Place at Pine Street. (Obituary courtesy of Keith McGuire)
  Person ID	I975	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	Leon Leonard Bordes,   b. 9 Sep 1889, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 8 Jun 1973, Louisiana  (Age 83 years)
  Married	18 Jun 1919	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1, 2]
  	New Orleans, Louisiana Marriage Records Index, 1831-1925 Name: Marie Clotilda Morlas Spouse: Leon Bordes Age: 26 Age: 31 Gender: F Marriage Date: 18 Jun 1919 Volume: 42 Page: 595
  Children	1. Living   2. Leon Sylvan "Brother" Bordes,   b. 20 Feb 1922, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 29 Apr 1996, Metairie, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana  (Age 74 years)   3. Rita Clothilde Bordes,   b. 28 Apr 1924, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 15 Sep 2012, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana  (Age 88 years)   4. Edward Morlas Bordes,   b. 29 May 1926, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 25 Jun 2008, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee  (Age 82 years)   5. Living
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2010
  Family ID	F714	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 27 Dec 1893 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Married - 18 Jun 1919 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Died - 2 Oct 1938 - 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

  Morlas, Lucine and daughters This formal portrait of Mms. Morlas and her daughters was taken around 1918 in New Orleans. Her husband and her four sons were not pictured. Back Row (l to r): Eugenia, Juliet, Leontine, Clothilde Front Row (l to r): Estelle, Josephine, Eleanor, Mme. Lucine Roquevert Morlas, Vivian, Lucille

  
  

  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. [S879] Ancestry.com - New Orleans, Louisiana Marriage Records Index, 1831-1925.