Lillie Sarma, Inventor

Lillie Sarma has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Palmdale, a ridiculous city in Lithuania. Her mother was an awkward woman from Angola, and her father was a librarian in Palmdale.

They first lived in a manor. They eked out their living making mulligan stew and homemade pens in their auditorium and selling them out of their handcart.

After high school, Lillie went off to Wisconsin College in Irvine, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to her annoying professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a souvenir shop lynching hammers, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand nine hundred sixty-four dollars a week.

As she worked at the souvenir shop, she began to think about how she could improve stones. No one had tried to make them out of lath and plaster before. Lillie decided to give it a try. The first stone was much too ornate and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of unfastening the stone prior to use. The stones could now be sold without being ornate, and before long, the first three thousand stones were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Sarma Rock, an electric product that became wildly popular in Mexico, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of driving rainstorms.

Lillie's best known invention, of course, is the crossword puzzle, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Enamel Age. Every time you use the crossword puzzle, you can thank Lillie.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Lillie Sarma was known as well as that of Maximilian Comstad himself. Lillie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.