Lori A. Spillane

Lori A. Spillane, 49, passed away on July 19, 2016. She was born on August 1, 1966 in St. Louis, Missouri to Edward and Shirley Spillane. She attended the Visitation Academy for high school and received her BA in English from Boston University and her law degree from Saint Louis University. After graduating from Law School, she married William Lutz and had two sons, Spencer and Casey.
She is survived by her parents of St. Louis, Missouri, her husband of 22 years, her two sons, and her brother Edward of College Station, Texas.
Lori was an attorney for 25 years and left an indelible mark on the legal community. Her accomplishments and involvements are far too numerous to list them all. She served as an assistant prosecutor in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri as well as in Delaware, Marion, and Hamilton Counties, Indiana. She was also academically published several times on legal matters and was an English professor at Ball State University and IUPUI. For over a decade she served the Fishers Police Department by writing applications for grants, coordinating the volunteer program and the "books and badges" program, providing estate planning services to officers, and managing the department's accreditation. She was also involved in numerous charitable activities, offering many organizations legal assistance and advice. She was especially involved in Alternatives, a domestic violence shelter in Anderson, serving on the board and planning activities and events for the children and mothers of the center. At her passing, she was leading efforts to build a domestic violence shelter in Hamilton County.
Lori was an amazingly kindhearted and compassionate person. She was always willing to help those in need and would do anything for those she cared about. She was a wonderful wife, mother, daughter, sister and aunt who always put her family first. She was a voracious reader and loved to exercise, spend time with family, and learn. She was an example of kindness, tenacity, and courage to all those fortunate to know her and she will be dearly missed.
A calling will be held on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at Randall & Roberts Fishers Mortuary, 12010 Allisonville Rd, Fishers, IN 46038 from 5-7 PM and a memorial mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, July 27 at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, 9900 E. 191st St, Noblesville, IN 46060 at 11:00 AM.
Contributions may be made to Alternatives, Inc., 1309 Monticello Dr, Anderson, IN 46011.