Biography of 	Brechtel, Gilbert Orleans Parish
Submitted by	Colleen Fitzpatrick April 1999

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Source:  Card File Index, Louisiana Division, Main Branch New Orleans Public Library

N.O. Contractor Succumbs at 78

Brechtel Funeral Rites to be Tuesday

Lawrence G. Brechtel, a New Orleans marble contractor, died early Sunday in Southern Baptist
Hospital.  He was 78.

Funeral services will be conducted at St. Dominic's Church, 775 Harrison Ave., Tuesday at 10:45
a.m.  Interment willb e in Lakelawn Park Mausoleum.  P.J. McMahon and Sons Funeral Home Inc.,
4800 Canal, is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Brechtel, a native on New Orleans, designed and supervised the laying of marble in the Old
Post Office building and in many other of the city's commercial structures.

He also designed and erected custom marble mantles in many New Orleans Residences.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Frances Schaefer Brechtel; a son, Roy Brechtel; a daughter,
Mrs. Michael Mellaney; two brothers, Peter and Gilbert Brechtel; two sisters, Mrs. George
Menhenick and Mrs. George Groetsch; one granddaughter, and three great-grandchildren.

(Accompanied by a picture.)

The Times Picayune, Monday Morning, March 8, 1965