Donald Lane Cavin
November 14, 1949 – April 6, 2019

NATCHEZ — Services for Donald Lane Cavin, 69, of Natchez and Woodville, who died Saturday
April 6, 2019, at Promise Specialty Hospital in Vidalia, will be noon Tuesday at Corinth Church of Christ with John Bryant officiating.
Burial will follow at Evergreen Cemetery in Woodville under the direction of Laird Funeral
Home.
Visitation will be from 5:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. Monday at Laird Funeral Home and 11 a.m.
Tuesday until service time at the church.
Mr. Cavin was born November 14, 1949, in Woodville, the son of Leon Claude Cavin and
Dorothy Sturdivant Cavin.
Mr. Cavin was an avid hunter, airplane and hot air balloon pilot, skydiver, and a state champion
in calf roping.
He was preceded in death by his father and step-father, Kenneth Thompson.
Survivors include his mother, Dorothy S. Cavin Thompson of Natchez; one brother, Kenny Cavin
and wife, Renee, of Natchez; one sister, Kathy Madden of Natchez; two nephews, Parker Cavin
of Baton Rouge and Cain Madden of Thibodeaux; three nieces, Shane McArthur and
husband, Joseph, of Ridgeland, Carson Blough and husband, Christian, of St. Francisville,
La., and Claudia Holifield and husband, Chris, of Vidalia; special friend, Dana Grantham of
Vidalia and a number of great-nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Parker Cavin, Austin Cavin, Justin Cavin, Wally Cavin, Jason Cavin, Neal Cavin,
Cain Madden, James Johnson, Chip Sturdivant and Ray Sturdivant.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at
stjude.org, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or by phone at 1 (800) 822-6344.
Online condolences may be sent to lairdfh.com.