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John Louis Morlas, Jr.

John Louis Morlas, Jr.

Male 1924 - 1979  (55 years)

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  • Name John Louis Morlas  [1
    Suffix Jr. 
    Born 23 Feb 1924  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Died 9 Oct 1979  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Buried Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • He married (2) Patricia TRYCHTA of Chicago, and they were the parents of Toni Marie MORLAS, born circa 1972 in Chicago. He married (3) Gloria J. CALIDONIO.

      John Louis Morlas, Jr., on Tuesday morning October 9, 1979 at 5:10, husband of Gloria Judith CALIDONIO, father of LIsa Marie Morlas of Los Angeles, California, Toni Marie Morlas of Chicago, Illinois, John R. Morlas of Covington. Louisiana, step father of Anna Maria Calidonio, brother of Paul M. Morlas, of Folsom, Louisiana, grand father of Candace Antoinette Morlas. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, from the Uptown home of Tharp Sontheimer Tharp, 4127 S. Claiborne Ave, or Thursday morning October 1, 1797 at 11:00. Interment in Netairie Cemetery. Visitation on Wednesday evening after 7:00 p.m.

      (Obituary courtesy Keith McGuire)
    Person ID I23282  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father John Louis "Bebe" Morlas, Sr.,   b. 22 Jan 1891, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Nov 1963, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Antoinette Trapani,   b. 9 Feb 1900, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Oct 1976, Folsom, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Married 25 Jun 1919  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
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    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

    Family Living 
    Children 
     1. John Robert Morlas,   b. 6 May 1949, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Aug 1985, Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years)
     2. Living
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 
    Family ID F1212  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 23 Feb 1924 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 9 Oct 1979 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Morlas Cousins at the St. Alphonsus Convent in 1927
    Morlas Cousins at the St. Alphonsus Convent in 1927
    This picture was taken on the grounds of the St. Alphonsus Convent in 1927 when the nieces and nephews of Juliet Theresa Morlas (Sister Mary Cyril, R.S.M.) joined her to celebrate her third year in the order of the Sisters of Mercy.


    Pictured are (Top) Johnny Trapani, Sylvan "Brother" Bordes, Paul Trapani, August Trapani(Middle) Leona Bordes holding Edward Bordes, Nettie Zahn holding Patricia Trapani, Juliette Trapani holding Bennie Zahn, Amanda Zahn(Bottom) Rita Bordes, John Morlas, Carl Bishop, Lucine Zahn

    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.).