article_snippet: the state's first female sheriff Lillian Holley died in 1994 at 103 after spending the state's first female sheriff Lillian Holley life being protected by the people of Crown Point, writes the IndyStar.
article_snippet: Here was this young widow who'd been embarrassed and humiliated,' local historian and director of the Old Sheriff's House and Jail museum Deborah Thill said of Holley, whose sheriff husband had died and left the position to Deborah Thill. '
article_snippet: At the helm of the town's sheriff's department was Sheriff Lillian Holley, who'd been appointed to serve out the term of her late sheriff husband after her late sheriff husband died in the line of duty.
highlights_snippet: Sheriff Lillian Holley ( nonetheless remained a beloved character in the town until Sheriff Lillian Holley ( death in 1994 at the age of 103 .