VENTURA—Lillian “Lil” Mae Connally, the matriarch of Island Packers in Ventura, died on Aug. 4. She was 87.
Connally was born in 1932 in Laton, California. She met a 22-year-old Bill Connally in 1950 and traveled with him aboard an Indian motorcycle to Tijuana, where the two were married. The...