Joanne Siegel, wife of Joe Siegel, died at age 95 on Saturday.

Joanne Siegel, who as a Cleveland teenager during the Depression hired herself out as a model to an aspiring comic book artist, Joe Shuster, and thus became the first physical incarnation of Lois Lane, Superman’s love interest, died on Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 93.

 Later in life, Joanne worked tirelessly to reclaim the copyrights for Shuster and Siegel. Her battle culminated with the 2008 judgment restoring half of the copyrights back to the Siegel family.