The Kula resident was 88.

"She was one of the stalwarts in my administration," former Maui County Mayor Elmer Cravalho told The Maui News.

During his administration, Cravalho said, he wanted to put more women into government at more "sophisticated" levels of authority, so he appointed Lane to head the Civil Defense Office, saying she was "competent, very, very competent."

"She was a very good planner ... She was devoted to any job she carried on," Cravalho said.

Lane was assigned to other major roles in county government, as director of the Department of Human Concerns and deputy director of the Finance Department. She developed key skills as a writer, including as one of the main grant writers for Maui County in seeking funding for a range of administrative programs as well as for innovative programs to benefit the elderly and low-income families on Maui, said her daughter, Katherine Lane Records.

Cravalho said Lane is one of the women he considers part of his legacy at the county and those who "were groundbreaking to bringing about equality."

Ron Vaught, who worked under Lane in human concerns, remembers her as a good leader.

"She was a terrific leader and a very nice person ... really had a feel for the community and everything about the community and the people who needed the services from that particular division of the county."

Lane was a graduate of Maui High School and the University of Hawaii and earned a master's degree in social gerontology from the University of Minnesota. She also worked at Maui Memorial Hospital.

After Lane retired in 1979, she was a community correspondent for The Maui News and wrote about her Kula community from 1981 to 1992.

"She had a brilliant mind and words just seemed to flow rhythmically," said Records. "This brought her many hours of enjoyment while enabling a community to share one another's legacies."

Lane also kept busy as a board member for many community organizations, including Hale Makua, Salvation Army and Maui Economic Opportunity.

She served on the Maui County Committee on Aging, was active with the AARP, and played the organ at Kahului Union Church.

Records said Lane also enjoyed walking and was an avid golfer who idolized Tiger Woods. In addition to her daughter, Lane is survived by two granddaughters, Joa L. Records and Allison E. Records, and a brother, Motoyuki Kawahara. Services were held.