Her mother died when Lucille was very young and she was raised by her father, William Sharp in a Christian home with six siblings.

[2] When Times lived in Detroit, she was part of a successful boycott of a butcher shop on 12th Street (later named Rosa Parks Blvd).

In a public conversation at the Rosa Parks Museum in 2017,[3] Times recounted her story following her claim that she started the Montgomery bus boycott.

After she pulled into the cleaners parking lot, Blake exited his bus and confronted her with, "you're a black son of a bitch!"

After splitting them up one of the policemen talked to Blake separately and then approached Times angrily with "do you know that was a white man you called a 'white son of a bitch'?"

The policeman became infuriated and shook his flashlight in Times' face and said, "if you were a man I'd beat your head to jelly."

Her husband helped with his car and they had a "donations" jar at the café where people made contributions for gasoline.

Times died from COVID-19 on August 16, 2021 at the age of 100 and was funeralized at St Jude Catholic Church in Montgomery.