Lucy Claire Graves McVicker was 90 when she passed quietly in her sleep on May 9. Her parents were Herbert Cornelius Graves, II and Josephine Lee Yost. She was born in Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and grew up on a farm in West Chester in Allegheny County with her sister, Nancy, and her brother, Herbert. They were a close-knit family.
Lucy studied English and art, and she received her bachelor’s degree from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. She married Charles Taggart McVicker in 1954. They lived first in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and then in Los Angeles, finally settling in Princeton in 1957, where Lucy lived the rest of her life.