Seymour Weiss

Seymour Weiss (September 13, 1896 – September 17, 1969 was a prominent New Orleans hotel executive and civic leader who was a close confidante of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Ironically, Weiss, the most loyal of Louisiana Longites, bore the same last name as Carl Weiss, M.D., the apparent assassin of U.S. Senator Huey Long.

Weiss, was born in Bunkie, Louisiana Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish and died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Son to Samuel Weiss, of Austria-Hungary, a merchant, and the former Gisella Elias, of Berlin, Germany. Seymour had three brothers: Bernard, Milton, and Julius. Bernard, and Milton, both died in a private plane crash with Airline Owner, Thomas Elmer Braniff on January 10, 1954 - along with a number of other Shreveport, LA. & Dallas, TX. Civic Leaders, on a private hunting trip - during a freak ice storm in southern Texas/Louisiana. Seymour's last brother, Julius, died later the same year - 8/30/1954, of personal health issues. Seymour was educated in public schools in Bunkie Louisiana and Abbeville, Abbeville, the seat of Vermilion Parish. For a time he was a clerk in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in central Louisiana, in an uncle's department store. He moved to New Orleans in 1916 to clerk in a shoe store. After the United States' entry into World War I, Weiss attended officers' training at Camp Gordon, Georgia, but the conflict ended before Weiss finished his training. Thereafter, he returned to New Orleans to resume work as a shoe clerk. Seymour was married twice: First married on April 19, 1925, to Notie "Fay" Turner, and finally, married to Elva Mae Lavies) Kimball - to whom he Predeceased. Seymour is buried in his Family's Plot at the Metairie Cemetery, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (Plot: Sec. 34, Lot 19).

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