Lucile Burtis 1900 - 1999 Lucile Burtis was one of four daughters, born to William Henry and Mary Emma Burtis in Decorah, Winneshiek, Iowa, on the 4th of July in 1900. She died of heart failure 99 years later, in Cupertino, Santa Clara County, California in 1999. Best known as painter and arts educator, Lucile never married or had children of her own. In the early 1940s Lucile served as an Assistant Professor of Art at the Southern Normal School in Ashland, Oregon and wrote essays on childhood creativity. She made her first visit to the Monterey Peninsula to attend the wedding of a Carmel High School teacher in 1943. Little more is known of Lucile’s life beyond her deep dedication to her art students through the decades and her travels to paint in the Hawaiian Islands.