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Dr. Louis Georges Roger de Montluzin
[Louis Georges Roger Viallier de Montluzin du Sauzay 1
July 19, 1863-January 16, 1914
Obituary, Bay St. Louis, MS, Sea Coast Echo, Sat., Jan. 10 [sic; issue misdated], 1914, p. 8:
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Dr. Roger LattfB de 'Montlbzfia djadat the family reeid0o<Selast ni^ht at 7 *50 o'clock,' after a Jon# Illness <>f .yewra, and fchqa came to a cio^ masterful products. A genius aod prince of if ellows belonging to the 8$$ety ;Aof men* God had endowed him with britr liant intellect and a mind that, made him a thinker and doer,
Dr, de Montluzin was horn in -St. James Parish, La., forty-nine y^afs ago. He attended Tulane Upiversity, where he graduated from the medical college and then went to Paris to complete his studies and take special courses in surgery/. From the very beginning of his career as a doctor he showed that he was destined to be a particularly successful surgeon, and these early predictions were brought to full fruition as he enjoyed a lucrative practice until stricken with paralysis and -was obliged to leave New Orleans to seek rest *and lighter work. He came home to Bay St. Louis, where hia parents and their family resided and was in the midst of his^home friends.
While in New Orleans Dr. de Montluzin was a member of the Pickwick, Boston and other exclusive clubs and
Carnival organizations, always taking a leading partin them.
He was prominently connected with the Merchants Bank, of this city, and was one of the vice presidents for a number of years.
Dr. de Montluzin was as gifted with the pen as he was with the surgeon?s knife, and he wrote many splendid medical papers and journals in this country and Europe, which also won for him much distinction.
The news of the doath will be learned with genuine regret He is survived by his brothers Alfred and Rene, a sister, Mrs. A. M. Benedio; two nieces, Mrs. C, A. Sporl, of New Orleans, and Mrs- A. 0._ Whitney of New York; Colonel R. E. de Montluzin, a nephew, a well-know New Orleans resident. Besides there are many other relatives.
His sister, Mrs. Jennie Delappe, died only three weeks since.
The funeral will take place tomorrow ?Sunday?morning at 11 o?clock, under the auspices of the local Masonic lodge.
[Note error in parag. 6, line 10: ?Jennie Delappe? is a misspelling of ?Jeanne de Lappe?; correction supplied by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, June 2007.]


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