Miriam "Polly" Lolita Cavin

Miriam Lolita "Polly" Lass Cavin was born in Galvez, Louisiana in 1931 in a house built on a location to withstand the level of flood waters of the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927.

She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in 1952. She first worked as a medical technologist in the laboratory at the downtown location of Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for 7 years. She was then a homemaker for 17 years and returned to the downtown hospital for evening shifts at the front desk reception area in 1977 and then at the Essen Lane location for an early morning shift for around 19 years, retiring in 1996.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Herman Cavin, who died 50 years ago in 1971.

She was in the audience in the old Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans, Louisiana when country music star Hank Williams, Sr. was married on stage. She loved attending concerts, such as Elvis Presley and Presley impersonators, the Moody Blues, Neil Diamond, Liza Minnelli, and Tom Jones.

She loved gardening, cooking, and crocheting and giving away crochet throws to relatives, neighbors and friends. She also enjoyed all kinds of parades, especially Mardi Gras parades, big and small, whether in New Orleans, Metairie, or Baton Rouge.

She would take friends and family to summer musicals at the Baton Rouge Little Theater.

She loved traveling both domestically and internationally (by plane, car, trains, and boats). Some of her favorite trips included a trip following the Great River Road up from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana to its source in Minnesota in a classic car with her friend, C.J. and a Mississippi River cruise with her cousin Irene and two of Irene's sons.

If she traveled alone on a plane, she would meet people and sometimes continue to correspond with them for years afterwards.

She was a "never meet a stranger" kind of person. Many people would come to think of her as an "other" sister, mother, grandmother, etc.

She loved going to movies and seeing two or three movies for the price of one with her friend, Mike.

Locally in Maryland, she is survived by her only child, Mary Forschler and her only grandchild, Andrew Forschler, and many friends and neighbors.

In her native Louisiana, she is survived by an older brother, many cousins, nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and many friends in Louisiana, around the country, and the world.

She was an accomplished storyteller, incapable of telling a story the same way twice. Many such stories involved her friend, Goldie.