Marie was born on January 08, 1950 in Vallejo, California to Richard Robert Minoletti, Jr. and Carolyn Pauline Meeth. She grew up with her sister, Kristine Anne Minoletti Kempton of Vallejo, CA. and brother Michael J. Minoletti of San Francisco, CA.. She attended St. Basil School, 1230 Nebraska St., Vallejo, CA. After school she would go to her grand mothers house for fresh home made  pies and other good food. She just loved seeing her grandparents. They had fruit trees in the backyard and she would climb the trees. Marie dated in high school, "I remember her telling me a story when her young date would come to pick her up and take her out against her mother and fathers permission and would later on get in trouble." Later on she would graduate high school and marry her high school sweetheart Mark Cavanaugh.

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Marie Annette Minoletti married Mark A. Cavanaugh on October 19, 1970 in Vallejo, California. They had three children together. There first child was girl, Bridgett A. Cavanaugh then another girl, Lisa A. Cavanaugh and finally but not least was a boy, Joseph A. Cavanaugh. They would move later on in life to Texas where they would eventually grow apart and become divorced. "She told me Lisa Hunt that her husband Mark A. Cavanaugh just one day went to the store and when she came out of the store, he had taken the children and left her there stranded. Now I don't know what is true or not since mom was suffering with schizophrenia and denied she had it and refused help." With that there marriage ended and Marie moved back to Vallejo, California grieving the loss of her three children. Marie would eventually have children out of wedlock. A boy, Paul Jeffrey Cavanaugh who end up being taken away from Marie in 2000 to live with his father Sammy O'Neil Dent with no visitations. And Paul would change his name later on in life to Paul O'Neil Dent. And at last Marie had her last child and baby of the family Lisa Helen Cavanaugh. Only child to not know who her father is -_-. Marie raised Paul and Lisa the best she could being a single parent with schizophrenia. She was in and out of shelters but we had each other, food, and roof over our heads. Marie and Lisa Hunt would be the duo until her daughter gets married. Marie would be finally alone.

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Marie Cavanaugh was living in Vallejo, California when Lisa Helen Cavanaugh and Adrian Hunt came to pick her up and bring her back home to Lawrenceburg, Indiana to live. Living in Lawrenceburg, Indiana would become very lonely for Marie after her daughters marriage to Adrian Hunt. Her daughter would have to live over the road and time to time she would get visits from Lisa two times a year. "I'm Lisa Hunt I'm writing this memorial for my mom Marie Cavanaugh and would like to say Marie was a very lonely soul in the end which I regret so MUCH. But in life we all have to pay bills and I couldn't be there for her when she really needed me. Mom refused to be put in a home or get a nurse to help her. So in the end I could have been there with her at home to make sure she was taken care of, but I have a husband and job and that's to be a good wife and I know my mom understood this. Marie told me this "to do as your husband says", and that's what I did and I know that I shortened her life. I love my mom with all my heart she was my life and soul. I know she's in a better place she's in heaven :') Love <3 you mom"

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Adrian got a load from Seattle, Washington to Berea, Kentucky which was really rare for him to get a load heading close to home in Lawrenceburg, IN. On January 27, 2019, in the afternoon time Adrian got a call from mom that she didn't feel good and he told her to go to the E.R. which Mom denied to do and that she would wait until we got home to go to the E.R. since she had not seen us in six months. We got home the night of January 27, 2019 and that night we spoke with Mom and she was at the time being ready to be flew by helicopter to Mercy Health Hospital in Cincinnati, Oh.. At the time we didn't think it was life and death situation, because mom had a heart attack back in October 2017 and was flew to the same hospital and came out alive and was ok. From what mom told us the first heart attack back in 2017, they couldn't get the stince inside her heart to open up a blockage in her main artery and Mom was to go back which she never did follow up. We found this out from the doctor who came in to see us. He seen Marie the first time she was there in 2017, Mom never went back to get the blockage unblocked so she ended back up in Mercy Health on January 27, 2019. This time was different for sure and we never saw it coming. The night of us talking to her the last time of talking to her she seemed ok and we all said goodnight to each other. The very early morning of January 28, 2019 maybe 7am eastern time, moms number showed up and we thought she was calling to see where we were because we had not went directly over to the hospital since it was so late and being in a semi truck we stayed at the apartment in Lawrenceburg, IN.. So Adrian picked up the phone it was the E.R. doctor saying Marie has flatlined 2 times, meaning her heart has stopped 2 times and he said it wasn't looking good. I started freaking out and then the doctor then askes Lisa "ME" not Adrian, if I would like to continue the recitation of her heart. I told him yes and we took off to the hospital. When we got to Mercy Health Hospital we checked in up stairs and they wouldn't let us see her right away and they told us Marie flatlined for the 3rd time. They got her back and had her on 3 types of drugs to keep her heart pumping as well as a breathing machine. Mom couldn't breathe or bump enough blood through her heart own her own. We were there all day from 7am until 3Pm. Several doctors, therapist and church sermon came to our aid. In the end I was the only one who could tell the doctors what was best for Marie. Which I hated to be the only one to make a massive decision like I had to make. Adrian did help me to. The doctor explained to us from there experience and us telling them how mom was in life, that she wouldn't want to live in a elderly home as a potatoes. And Marie loved to run around and do things and wouldn't have liked her life after this massive heart attack. They also said they cracked many rib bones when resuscitating her the 3 times. From there experience they said many people don't come back from where Marie was at. So the hardest decision I've ever had to make was telling them to do a no resuscitating order, meaning if she flatlined again to not do anything. A few hours went by and they came in to ask what I wanted to do. I told them which was hard for Adrian as well, I think harder for him at the moment. I think I must have been in shock from everything. But I told them to disconnect the lifeline. Marie became awake after the nurses were detaching the drugs and hoses. When the assistant was cutting some of Moms hair for me to have. I swear the look mom gave the nurse was to KILL. The last thing Marie saw was me leaving the room, once she saw me she calmed down. She started to fail fast her heart was giving out and the doctors assured us Mom wasn't in any pain. Once we came back into the room after they disconnected her she was gone so fast. We never got to talk to her directly, I believe she could hear us. She would move her right leg up and down and open her eyes but, In the end she couldn't breathe on her own or pump blood to her heart own her own and I don't know if she understood the situation. The doctor's wouldn't touch her were there words. They said if she went into surgery she would die as fast as she did when life support was removed. I like to think she was letting me know she could hear me, I kept asking Adrian if she could hear me. So with all this said I liked to say Marie was the best mom in the world to me :) And I will always remember her she will never be forgotten. <3 Mom.

So 3 days after Marie's death on February 1, 2019, I Lisa Hunt made arrangements to have her cremated and placed in a beautiful flowered green emerald urn, also have a keepsake necklace urn. When time and money allows we plan on burying her. Were not sure where her resting place will be. Either Lawrenceburg, Inadiana or Greenville, NC. We'll see.

Thank you for getting to know Marie Annette Minoletti Cavanaugh. <3