Leon Joseph Morlas

Notes:

Keith McGuire noted that he worked on the construction of the Atlas Missile Site near Altus, Oklahoma during the summer of 1961, visiting with his sister Josephine several times during his stay in Oklahoma.

Leon J. Morlas

Leon J. Morlas, 72, a resident of No. 30 Lemoyne Rd., Pass Christian Isles, retired electrician and dairyman, died Tuesday at 8:55 a.m. in Memorial Hospital in Gulfport where he had been a patient for 10 days. Mr. Morlas, born Oct. 19, 1903, in New Orleans, was owner of Leon Morlas Dairy Farm for 25 years. He had resided at this present address since 1963. In later life, Mr. Morlas was in the electrical business and was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 130, New Orleans. He was a Catholic, a member of St. Paul's Church of Pass Christian. Mr. Morlas is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mattie Plunkett Morlas, Pass Christian; one son, Leon J. Morlas, Jr. Chattanooga, Tenn; one dauthter, Mrs. Mary Ellen Earthman, Camden, Ark.; five sisters, Mrs. Claude Bishop, Bay St. Louis, Sister Mary Cyril, R.S.M., Mrs. Eugene Schoenfelf and Mrs. Alvin Rohli, New Orleans, and Mrs. Kenneth Carpenter, Woodward, Okla.; three granddaughters, and on great-grandson. Friends may call Friday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Riemann Funeral Home Chapel in Pass Christian. Recitation of the Rosary will be at 8 p.m. A prayer service will be held Saturday at 11:15 a.m. at the chapel followed by a Requiem Mass at 11:30 a.m. in St. Paul's Catholic Church. The Rev. Michael Clifford, assistant pastor, will be the celebrant. Burial will be in the Live Oak Cemetery.

(Obituary courtesy of Keith McGuire)

Leon married Mattie Aminda Plunkett on 29 Mar 1926 in Bay Saint Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi. Mattie was born on 26 Jun 1905 in McNeill, Pearl River County, Mississippi; died on 31 Mar 1998 in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Leon married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Vicksburg Post
Bill and Mary Ellen Earthman
Published Friday, December 18, 2020

Excerpted from longer memorial for both Bill and Mary Ellen Earthman

During the time Bill was employed by International Paper, the family moved and lived in several different states. Mary Ellen maintained the home and cared fro their three children. She was a lover of all animals and cared for domestic as well as anythign wild that needed her help.

Bill and Mary Ellen supported several different humane societis and dedicated their lives to helping animals. Bill was vice president of the Vicksburg Warren Humane Society before he passed away.

Both loved antiques and antique auctions.

Mary Ellen was preceded in death by her parents. Leon Joseph Morlas and Mattie Plunkett Morlas, her husband of 61 years, WIlliam "Bill" Earthman; brother, Leon Joseph Morlas Jr; granddaughter, Cathryn Brumbelow; daughter Aminda Brumbelow; and son-in-law Georg Hawn Jr.

They were survived by daughters Mary Ellen Presson (Tommy) and Lucine Earthman Hawn; sister-in-law, Betty Joyce Morlas; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Mary married William Butler Earthman, Jr. on 23 Oct 1953 in Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. William was born on 7 Sep 1933 in Harriman, Roane County, Tennessee; died on 21 May 2015 in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aminda married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bennie Zahn instead shows she was born in Montague, Texas, and that her middle name was Lucine.

However, both the Texas Birth Index, and her obituary list her middle name as Aminda. The excerpt of her obituary, unsourced and from a commercial new aggregator online reads "BRUMBELOW Cathryn Aminda Brumbelow A native of Pittsburg, TX and a resident of Mobile, AL, died Wednesday at her home in Theodore, AL She -----"