Lena Graham, a former councillor who served as leader of the administration on Tayside Regional Council, has died aged 77.
Representing the Kinross seat on the regional council, Mrs Graham was also a councillor for West Kinross with Perth and Kinross District Council.
A lifelong SNP supporter, Mrs Graham’s council career stretched from 1989 to the mid-90s.
Originally from Haddington, Mrs Graham lived in Milnathort while serving as a full-time councillor and had lived in Scotlandwell for 17 years.
A social worker before becoming a councillor, Mrs Graham served on many organisations and voluntary committees including Tayside Health Board, the Care Commission, Ochil Tower School, Tayside Arts Trust and Hillcrest Housing Association.
She was also involved with prison visiting, drug and alcohol groups and as a lay member of school inspections.
Mrs Graham started the Friends of Latvia with a number of other councillors and businesses which helped to rebuild a music school in Sigulda and various other projects in Latvia.
Through Perth Festival of the Arts committee, she was involved in bringing a group of Latvian children to perform in Perth in the early ’90s.
Paying tribute on behalf of Perth and Kinross Council, Councillor Jack Coburn said: “I was fortunate enough to know Lena for many years, long before I was a councillor myself.
“Lena was involved in so many different ways in helping people locally and further afield, and was a strong supporter of the Peace Child project amongst many other things.
“Lena was just a brilliant person, and someone who I feel privileged to have known. She will be sadly missed.
“It is the kindness to and thoughtfulness for others that will be the lasting memory of Lena,” he said.
April Adam, service manager of the Fife Intensive Rehabilitation and Substance Misuse Team (FIRST) whose main office is at South Fergus Place, Kirkcaldy, said Mrs Graham was a great supporter of FIRST.
“She leaves big shoes to fill but also an organisation all the better for having had her support, drive and enthusiasm over the last decade and more,” she said.
Mrs Graham is survived by her husband John and children Susan, Brian and Wendy and grandchildren.