Jane Wilkins Pultz, 82, founded publishing firm

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Jane Wilkins Pultz, founder of an O'ahu publishing company that specialized in books on Hawaiiana, died Oct. 3. She was 82.

In 1976 Pultz started the Press Pacifica Publishing Co., and as a publisher and publishing consultant brought more than eight dozen titles to press.

Born and raised in New York state, Pultz began her career as a journalist. While working at a newspaper in Lockport, N.Y., she became one of country's first female sports editors.

During World War II Pultz was a Naval Intelligence officer with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES. After the war she studied creative writing at the University of Iowa and worked as a librarian in New York and Montana.

She married Richard Pultz in 1952, and the couple lived and worked in Latin American before moving to Hawai'i in 1966. In the 1970s, Pultz helped found a women's studies program for the University of Hawai'i.

She is survived by her husband, Richard; a daughter, Mary Anne Pultz of Bellingham, Wash.; and son, David L. Pultz, of Oakland, Calif.

Services have been held.