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John Louis "Bebe" Morlas, Sr.

Male 1891 - 1963  (72 years)


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  • Name John Louis "Bebe" Morlas  [1
    Suffix Sr. 
    Nickname Bebe 
    Birth 22 Jan 1891  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Nov 1963  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Burial Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Feb 1923, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years) 
    Mother Lucine Roquevert,   b. 28 Jan 1869, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Feb 1946, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 28 May 1888  St. Stephen's Church, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Photos
    Morlas Family Reunion, New Orleans, 1987
    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
    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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Oct 1976, Folsom, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 25 Jun 1919  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. John Louis Morlas, Jr.,   b. 29 Jul 1920, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jan 1923, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)
     2. John Louis Morlas, Jr.,   b. 23 Feb 1924, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Oct 1979, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
     3. Living
    Photos
    Trapani, Antoinette 1919 marriage to John Louis Morlas
    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.
    Family ID F713  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 22 Jan 1891 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 25 Jun 1919 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 27 Nov 1963 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Morlas Siblings
    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
    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
    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 
    1. [S479] Zahn, Bennie Jay--The Families Pene Roquevert Morlas (Privately Published; New Orleans, LA 1992) , updates and corrections issued periodically.

    2. [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.).