This article written and copyright 2012 by Will Johnson, wjhonson@aol.com, Professional Genealogist
Lucy McGinnis is known today as the personal secretary for many years, of George Adamski, one of the fathers of Ufology, and she is one of the eye-witnesses, which claim to have witnessed his interaction with a space alien from Venus.
She was born Lucy Rutt on 9 Dec 1901, the daughter of Clay Rutt and his wife Lillian Pitney. On 15 Feb 1923, she age 21 married Edward H McGinnis age 23, in Jackson County, Missouri. He was the son of Brick McGinnis and Nancy. While living in Kansas City in 1917, he filed his WWI Draft Registration Card where we learn his middle name was Hubert, and that he was then a salesman for National Refining Company. He at that time lists his mother as Nancy Belle McGinnis of Kansas City.
Edward and Lucy had a son Roy in 1923/4, and a son Robert in 1928/9. They lived in Kansas City, MO in 1930 where Edward was an attendant at a oil station, and Lucy was a secretary at Unity School. In 1936 Edward is listed in the Los Angeles Voters Registrations as an electrician, and Lucy as a housewife. They lived in Compton, Los Angeles in 1940 at 1112 Pine Avenue, where Edward worked for the county Traffic Department. In 1942, Edward is an electrician and Lucy is a housewife. She ghost-wrote a book in 1949 published under the name of George Adamski. She was in his inner circle at least under the early 1950s but fell out with him. Edward H McGinnis born 5 May 1899 Missouri, died 7 Dec 1960 Los Angeles County. Lucy died on 3 Nov 1982 in Escondido, San Diego County, California.