Hi, Thanks to Lionel for this. Can someone else help me with the obit for Juan Jose? Thanks, Joan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Help about the Calandria's Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:45:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Lcottierjr@aol.com To: joan_f_schaefer@sbcglobal.net *Hi,* ** *Here's the obit for Challis W. Calandria. Her husband's obit ran in the Times-Picayune on Sunday, July 20, 1980. I'm sorry, I don't have a subscription Genealogy Bank, but if you know someone who does, they maybe to copy Juan Jose Calandria's obit for you. * *Regards, * *Lionel Cottier, Jr.* ***************************************************************************************************************************** CHALLIS W. CALANDRIA , NOTED PAINTER, SCULPTOR *Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA) - Monday, February 14, 2000 * ** *Challis Walker Calandria , a portrait painter, sculptor and fine arts teacher, died Saturday at Touro Infirmary after a brief illness. She was 87. Mrs. Calandria was born and educated in New York. She attended the Art Students League in New York for two years, where she studied sculpture with William Zorach. In Paris, she met her future husband, Juan Jose Calandria , while studying sculpture at the Academie Colarossi. "We fell in love in the spring in Paris," she said in a 1995 interview. "It was all very romantic." Her husband, a sculptor and painter highly regarded for his abstract works, had been named Uruguay's honorary consul to New Orleans. They settled here in 1941 and stayed. Among Mrs. Calandria 's commissioned works are portraits of judges, educators and doctors. Her portraits of Archbishops Philip Hannan and Francis Schulte hang in the Ursuline Convent. Another portrait of Hannan hangs in St. Louis Cathedral. "I'd like to be a better artist than I am," she said in 1995. "But I feel as though I've helped people in teaching, and given them pleasure with my paintings. In a small way I've left a mark." Mrs. Calandria also is the author of a children's book, titled "Three and Three." Survivors include a son, Andres Calandria ; a daughter, Diantha Terrell of Lafayette; two sisters, Rhoda Teagle of Woodstock, Vt., and Katherine MacKenty of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; and two granddaughters. A memorial service will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1545 State St. Burial will be private.* ***************************************************************************************************************************** In a message dated 6/10/2012 3:13:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time, joan_f_schaefer@sbcglobal.net writes: Hello, A genealogy friend just found a family connection to Challis Walker Calandria and Juan Jose Calandria. However, she is having trouble finding an obituary for either of them. I checked the Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index on Nutrias.org, and did not find them there. I checked www.legacy.com, and did not find them there. It seems from Wikipedia.org that they were quite famous people. Were they well known by you people? Do you have any ideas about finding an obituary? Thanks, Joan Schaefer