Gladys M. Lane died Sept. 22, 2003, of natural causes on Vashon Island. She was 101 years old.

Mrs. Lane was born near New Haven, Conn., on Nov. 13, 1901, to James Cumming and Ruby Ella Fletcher.

Although she did not attend college, she walked through the campus of Yale University when going to high school each day, so she jokingly told people she “went through Yale.”

On Sept. 10, 1921, she married John Albert Lane, a Harley Davidson dealer. On their honeymoon, they traveled to Niagara Falls on a motorcycle with a sidecar.

Mrs. Lane worked as a bookkeeper in a Massachusetts hospital before retiring to her cabin in the woods in Friendship, Maine, and her trailer in Jupiter, Fla., driving back and forth between the two.

Mrs. Lane lived at Wesley Gardens retirement home in Des Moines, for more than 23 years and moved to a Vashon Island adult family care home.

Her parents, siblings, husband, son John Lane of Texas and daughter-in-law Sara Gay Lane of Des Moines, Wash. died earlier.

Survivors include sons, Russell E. Lane and his wife Agnes of Columbus, Ohio, Roger W. Lane of Vashon, 11 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren and one great granddaughter.

A memorial service will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at Wesley Gardens, 815 S. 216th St., Des Moines, Wash.

Burial will be at Vashon Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Wesley Homes Circle of Concern or the American Red Cross.