Obituary

Cavett, Strange, Mrs. (Pollyanna Earnest)

HILLSBORO - Pollyanna Cavett, 94, of Hillsboro passed away Tuesday, September 2, 2014 in Hillsboro, Texas.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, at Line Street United Methodist Church in Hillsboro with the Rev. Darrel Phillip and the Rev. Amy Anderson officiating.

Pollyanna was born in a potato cellar during a cyclone in Lawton, Okla., weighing almost 2 pounds. She was put in a shoe box with a hot water bottle. She was born with a happy disposition, which she maintained all her life, because she knew and loved the Lord with all her heart. Her father was James Dan Earnest and her mother was Eunice Maude Vaughn Earnest. She was reared most of her life in Plainview by her grandmother Idella Vaughn and her aunt Cora Vaughn.

Pollyanna married the love of her life, Strange Cavett, on Feb. 5, 1948, in Plainview. She served the Lord as church organist and choir director for 50 years for five different denominations, sometimes serving two churches on one Sunday. She also taught her husband to sing. Both Pollyanna and her husband were lay volunteers for five hospitals in Denver, Colo., for 23 years. Pollyanna also served in nursing homes for 35 years. She loved people and always looked for the best in them and always got it. She prayed for everyone she saw and met on the street.

Her husband died in 1988 from cancer, 10 days before their 41st wedding anniversary. To this couple, 41 years was too short a time because they thoroughly enjoyed each other and were very happy. Pollyanna moved to Hillsboro to live in the Days Inn Motel. Mr. and Mrs. Sunny Patel were her very good friends. She was known as the motel "Grandma and Ambassador" because she would always greet and visit with the guests. She had said that this was a motel that prayed for each person as they left that they would have a safe trip and that God would go with them. She also often said that she "Sure did like Hillsboro, the people are great!" Polyanna was a member of the Line Street United Methodist Church and loved the church. Pollyanna was a member of our American Legion Auxiliary Unit 260 here in Plainview.

In lieu of flowers, she requested that a love offering be made to her church's building maintenance fund, Line Street United Methodist, P.O. Box 1665, Hillsboro, TX 76645, or to the Hillsboro Interfaith Ministries, P.O. Box 793, Hillsboro, TX.

Published in Plainview Daily Herald from Sept. 21 to Sept. 22, 2014