Funeral Company Founder Dies
Submitted by Larie Tedesco January 2006
Times Picayune 09-01-1993


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Felix Tranchina Fallo, co-founder and former president of the
Lamana Co., now Lamana-Panno-Fallo Funeral Home, died Monday
at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Biloxi, Miss. He
was 96.

Mr. Fallo was born in New Orleans and lived in Waveland,
Miss., for many years. He attended Live Oak School and Warren
Easton High School. In 1921, Mr. Fallo and his brother,
Joseph, founded the Lamana Co. at 624 St. Phillip St. The
company has grown to include four locations in and around the
New Orleans area.

He was a Navy veteran of World War I.

He was past captain of Jerusalem Drum and Bugle Corps, past
commander of the American Legion Mid-City Post 232 and a
former member of the Grand Consistory of Louisiana No. 320,
Eastern Star Bay Chapter 129 in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and
Jerusalem Temple A.A.O.N.M.S.

He was a member of Dante Masonic Lodge No. 174 F&AM in New
Orleans; Andrew Jackson Lodge No.428 F&AM in Arabi; Dominique
You Masonic Lodge No. 468 F&AM in Yscloskey; Farhad Grotto
Mystic Order of Vail Prophets of the Enchanted Realm Unit
Council; Drum Corp and Provost Guard Unit; Veterans of World
War I; 40 & 8 Voiture Locale No. 432, Grand Voiture, Miss.;
the Gentilly Lions Club; Woodman of the World Maple Camp; the
Old Friends Barracks Club; the Old Hickory Club, Arabi; the
American Association of Retired Persons; the Italian Culture
Society; St. Bartholomew Apostle Italian Society; St. Mary's
Catholic Youth Organization Boosters Club; Refrigeration
Engineers and Technicians Association; and the Louisiana State
Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.

Survivors include his wife, Lois Buniff Thibodeaux Fallo of
Waveland; a daughter, Rose Mary Verdigets of New Orleans; a
stepson, Eugene Thibodeaux of Covington; a stepdaughter, Lois
Van Dyke of Waveland; four grandchildren; eight step-
grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; nine step-great-
grandchildren and one step-great-great-grandchild.

A Mass will be said Thursday at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of the
Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Visitation will
be today at 7 p.m. at Edmond Fahey Funeral Home. Burial will
be in Gulf Coast Memorial Cemetery Mausoleum.