This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SEITZ SETIZ HOLT LASAGE SIMAR JOHNSON FAVROT BYNUM DUNCAN CONRAD ARBOUR LEGARDE JOLLY MCHUGH Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DCB.2ACE/194 Message Board Post: After a prolonged illiness, Mrs. Sophie SETIZ [SEITZ], 73, passed away Sunday evening at 6 o'clock at the family residence, 604 St. Ferdinand street. Funeral services will be held at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon at the St. Agnes Catholic church and interment will be made in the Magnolia Cemetery. The pall bearers will be Mayor Wade BYNUM, Messrs. Joe DUNCAN, Fred CONRAD, J. H. ARBOUR, Ernest LAGARDE, Henry JOLLY and Guy McHUGH. Mrs. Setiz was a life long resident of Baton Rouge and was the last of one of the city's oldest and most prominent families. She was formerly Miss Sophie HOLT, daughter of the late Jordon HOLT and Augustine LESAGE. Her husband was the late Capt. Philip Setiz, also a member of a leading Louisiana family. Mrs. Setiz made her home with her daughter, Miss Vallie Seitz. She had received the tenderest care from her loved ones and everything was done to make her declining years pleasant and comfortable. She was a devout member of the St. Josephs Catholic church and up until several years ago was very active in church work. She had numerous friends and relatives in Baton Rouge to mourn her death. Mrs Seitz is survived by two daughters, Miss Vallie Seitz of this city, and Mrs. Bert Simar, of Iota, La: one son, Capt. Canton Seitz, also of Baton Rouge: four grandchildren, Lois and Canton Seitz and Vallie and Philip Sietz Simar, and several nieces, the Misses Johnson of New Orleans and Mrs. Josie HOLT FAVROT of Washington, D. C. end. State Times, Baton Rouge, La. 6 April 1925 pg 4.