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Born in Leavenworth, KS, Lucie was the only child of the late Emmet Dorr Sill (1850–1895) and
Elizabeth Mead Close Sill (1851–1933). Emmet Sill had died (in a train accident while working
as a conductor in Olathe, KS) before Lucie's 1899 graduation from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Lucie and her mother rented at 6504 Union Avenue in Chicago at the time of Lucy's death.
Her body was identified by Avon S. Hall, principal at Calumet High School where Lucie had taught for four years, and Auburn
Park Elementary School (that shared a common building at 8025 Normal Avenue in Chicago).
Hall had been the first principal at the Calumet High School when it opened in 1891. No teachers from
Calumet or the Auburn Park schools were among the Iroquois Theater victims.
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Lucie's funeral was held on New Years day, January 1, 1904. She was buried beside her father at Oak Hill Cemetery in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
In the years after the fire
A liability suit was brought on behalf of Lucie's estate against the theater and Fuller Construction.
By 1920 Elizabeth relocated to Colorado and in 1933 lived in California.
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