Dead Page- Lucille Meyer San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Survivor

Lucille Meyer- 1896-2007

Survivor of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

Lucille Meyer died May 23, 2007. She was nine years old when the earthquake hit San Francisco in 1906. She was visiting family friends in San Mateo when it happened and would only rarely bring up her experiences.

In a 2005 interview in the SF Chronocle she said: "You could see all the smoke from the city...and bits of ash coming down from the sky." She came back a few days later. "Everything was flattened from the Ferry Building to 20th Street.

Her home was gone and her family moved to the Ocean View neighborhood.

At 111 years of age, Mrs. Meyer not only lived through that historical event, but a lot of other stuff. She was born even before flight.