Businessman Morris Lew rites held on Nov. 5

MORRIS LEW, 81, the owner of Express Ship Supply, a multi-million dollar company specializing in wholesale marine equipment and supplies, died early this morning, November 5, 2017, less than one week before what would have been his 82nd birthday.

Lew was born in Buenos Dias, Argentina to Russian-Polish parents who had immigrated there. He had been a longtime resident of both Metairie and Orleans Parish, where his business was formed in 2009.

He is survived by his wife Malka Lew, sons Eli and Perry Lew and five grandchildren.

A graveside funeral was held on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 5, at 3:00 pm at the Jewish Burial Rites Cemetery, 4321 Frenchman St. (off Elysian Fields Avenue and Pelopidas St.). Rabbi Yossi Nemes of Chabad Center of Metairie officiated.

No other details including the observance of shiva are known at this time.

Funeral arrangements were by Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home of Metairie.

The CCJN will update this information as soon as these details emerge.