Robert Caswell was an outgoing, New Orleans native and attorney who moved to Lakehills in 1980, married a businesswoman there and became the driving force behind the creation of the Medina Lake Cajun Festival, a nationally recognized celebration that will mark its 40th anniversary this year.
“He lived and breathed the Cajun Festival,” said his wife Barbara Engel about an event that kept the Lakehills Civic Center from being lost to foreclosure. “He considered it one of the great accomplishments of his life.”
Caswell, 77, died on Dec. 11 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis and dementia. An obituary prepared by ...