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Bertrand Christoffer Morlas

Male 1935 - 1977  (42 years)


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  • Name Bertrand Christoffer Morlas  [1
    Born 30 Jun 1935  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Died Aug 1977  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I23302  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Louis August Morlas,   b. 17 Apr 1899, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1964, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Mother Lenora Mathilda Christoffer,   b. 26 May 1906, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jun 1984, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married Jan 1929  Saint Bernard, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F717  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 30 Jun 1935 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Aug 1977 - 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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    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.).