Dorothy Higson

1945 - 2024

The family of Dorothy Lois Cox Higson announce with great sadness her passing on August 29th. She was 79 years old. Born February 19, 1945, in New Orleans, the youngest child of Edgar and Sadie Cox, she went to the now named Leah Chase Public School on S. Carrollton Ave. Later, following her mothers death in 1959, she moved with her father to Dupont in Avoyelles Parish, where much of her family originated, attending and graduating from Plaucheville High School in 1962. From there she went to the University of Southwestern La. where she studied art & architecture. She was a life-time member of the Theosophical Society. Under the tutelage of Mrs Evna Edmunsen, a former President of the American Astrological Society, she became an accomplished astrologer, that led, later, to counseling jobs. One of her volunteering stints as a young mother, was to help set up the Howard Montessori school, later to be absorbed into the Audubon Montessori school. She worked briefly for Met Life Her interest in East Asian religions led to her service at the Krishna Temple on Esplanade Ave. Following her initiation by Jayapataki Swami in 2002 she was given the name Daya Chandrika. Her interests included jewelry-making & reading & writing poetry. She will be celebrated and remembered as pioneer in a field now being better understood and accepted in today's world. She was a Mystic. She is survived by husband, Michael Higson, to whom she was married for 50 years; her son, Nessim Higson; her daughter Holly Charpentier; granddaughters Chloe Higson and Gracie Vogel-Beard, grandsons Ross Vogel & Ocean Higson, and great granddaughter, Opal Beard. In addition her loving cousins, Ann, Tommy, Richard Zorthian, Beryl née Cox, Fay Butler, Joyce Schmidt, Louise Schexnyder, Gene Nicholson, Roger Travasos, Betty Constantine, Gwen LeDoux, Bill Cox, Stan Cox, Richard Cox,as well as nieces Tamra Karuna and Lisa Upchurch, and many friends. Chief among them Denise Dickerson; Jane & Mike, Ann & Karen Chenuau.Her many in-laws in the UK, and in particular Shirley Wade of Shrewsbury. On a date sometime during the Christmas season, the family will host a commemorative celebration at the house that was her home for fifty years. In summation, our paean to her memory: "You will always be our sunshine tiger momma."