Lucie Mellert, who photographed the “On the Town” section of the Gazette and then the Gazette-Mail for more than a decade, died early Friday morning, her son said. She was 90.

A Charleston native, Mellert started taking photos at events for the newspaper as a volunteer beginning in the late 1990s, according to a 2010 interview with Mellert by late former Gazette writer Sandy Wells. She “retired” from the job in November 2013.