[SomeCallMeTim]

No. It’s “Loo - ah - vull”

[Phoenix8]

Looks like I have to bring my big guns out.

Here is Joan Biaz…1960s. “Lilly of the West”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XjIFzLaMIk

Here is WAKY AM radio 1950.

Sign on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAlC7sr0Fp4

Notice in BOTH cases it’s pronounced Lou-E-Vill

Now go to bed with no supper both of you.
🤣

PS
I also once had a collage of national news sources covering the big 1937 flood. All with the pronounced E in the middle.