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Rene de Montluzin, Sr.
[Jean Rene Gabriel Viallier de Terradoux de Montluzin du Sauzay, Sr.]
December 2, 1865 - February 18, 1959 Obituary, New Orleans Times' Picayune, Fri., Feb. 20, 1959, p. 5:
DE MONTLUZIN
Mississippi, Pharmacist Succumbs at 93
Funeral services for Rene de Montluzin Sr., 93, Bay St. Louis, Miss., pharmacist, will be conducted Friday at 11:30 a. m. at Fahey funeral home in Bay St. Louis. Masonic services will follow at Cedar Rest cemetery.
Mr, de Montluzin, one of the oldest active pharmacists in Mississippi until recently, died Wednesday in Bay St. Louis at the home of his son, Rene Jr.
He was a past honorary president of the Mississippi State Pharmaceutical Association. He received his license as a pharmacist in 1893.
Mr. de Montluzin was born in St. James parish but spent 85 years of his life in, Mississippi. Since boyhood he had been active in the drugstore founded in Bay St. Louis by his father in 1878.'
As a young man he served as a lieutenant in the coast company o4the Mississippi State Militia.
was a 32nd degree Mason, having been a member of the Hamasa Temple of Meridian and of the Bay St. Louis Lodge No. 429, F & A.M.
-In addition to his son, he is survived by a granddaughter, niece and a nephew, R. E. E. de Montluzin of New Orleans.
Active pall bearers are John McDonald, Don McCuUoch, Richard Shadoin, Sam Whitfield, San
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Russell, Hardin Shattuck, Alden Mauffray, all ol Bay St. Louis, and Richard Drown Jr. and Henry Piccaluga of New Orleans.
Honorary pall bearers are Louis J. Norman, E. S. Drake, Jesse Cowand, Dr. J. A. Evans, A. E. Voight, Andrew Spotomo, Joseph di Benedetto, J. B. Goldman, Dr. Ernest Samrfel, N. L. Carter, Dr. A. P. Smith, Col. C. Newton, all of Bay St. Louis, and C. A. Sporl Jr. and Harold D. Sporl of New Orleans.
[Note error in parag. 8, line 3: Dan Russell (incorrectly listed as ?San Russell?); correction supplied by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, Feb. 2007.]