Leopold "Paul" Victor Morlas

1907 - 1971  (63 years)

• Name	Leopold "Paul" Victor Morlas  [1]
  Nickname	Paul
  Birth	14 Nov 1907	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Feb 1971	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Burial	Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
  Notes	Leopold V. Morlas, Sr. on Sunday, February 21, 1971 at 2:45 o'clock p.m., husband of the late Olie Louis Roberts; father of Paul Morlas; Ralph L. Morlas and Clay R. Morlas; son of the late Lucine Roquevert and John Morlas; brother of Leon Morlas of Pass Christian, Mississippi, Mrs. Leontine Zahn, Mrs. Estelle Trapani, Mrs. Eugenie Bishop of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Sister M. Cyril RSM, Mrs. J. Carpenter of Woodward, Oklahoma, Mrs. Vivian Schoenfeld, Mrs. Eleanor Rohli and the late John and Louis Morlas, Mrs. C. Bordes, Mrs. Lucine Quinn, also survived by 11 grandchildren. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral. Services from Jefferson Home of Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Inc., 1600 N. Causeway Blvd, Wednesday, February 24, 1971, at 10:30 o'clock a.m. followed by Requiem Mass at St. Matthew the Apostle Church. Interment in Metairie Cemetery. Visitation on Tuesday, February 23, 1971, after 6 o'clock p.m. (Obituary courtesy of Keith McGuire)
  Person ID	I982	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)
  Marriage	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	Olie "Peach" Louise Roberts,   b. Abt 1911, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana d. 31 Jul 1965, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana (Age ~ 54 years)
  Marriage	Mar 1927	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Children	1. Leopold Victor "Boy" Morlas, Jr.,   b. 6 Apr 1928, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana d. 12 Jan 1988, Saint Rose, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana (Age 59 years)   2. Ralph Leonard Morlas,   b. 23 Feb 1930, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana d. 7 Jun 1977, Jefferson, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (Age 47 years)   3. Clay Robert Morlas,   b. 11 Mar 1934, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana d. 11 Dec 2004, Northport, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F720	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 14 Nov 1907 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Marriage - Mar 1927 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Death - 21 Feb 1971 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Burial - - 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.

  
  

  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.