Funeral services for Kenneth Ray Lambert, 73, of Trinity, will be Monday, May 13, 2013, at 2 p.m. at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Moulton, with The Reverand Steve Agee, The Reverand Neil Carter, and The Reverand Ronald Manly officiating and Lawrence Funeral Home directing. The family will receive friends at the church from 12 p.m. until 2 p.m. Burial will be at Moulton Memory Gardens.
Mr. Lambert died on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Houston, Texas, where he lost his battle with leukemia. He was born on December 5, 1939, in Courtland, Alabama, to Floyd and Louvinia Lambert.
Mr. Lambert graduated from Hazlewood High School in 1958, and attended Calhoun Community College and the University of North Alabama. After working a few years at Worthington Corporation, Mr. Lambert began his career as a draftsman at Chemstrand/Monsanto and retired from Solutia as a drafting supervisor after 35 years. He then devoted full-time to his own business, K.R. Lambert Construction, Inc., which he had started ten years earlier.
He was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church for over 50 years.
He is preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Carolyn Sapp Lambert; his children, Laurie Montgomery and husband, Andy, Moulton, and Jared Lambert, Tampa, Florida; grandson, Robert Montgomery and wife Sara, Moulton; and great-grandson, Jimmie Ray Montgomery, Moulton; one brother, Billy Joe Lambert and wife, Brenda, Courtland; and one sister, Syble Sims, Hatton.
Pallbearers will be Billy Bankston, Scotty Brackin, Wayne Frost, Robert Hester, Thomas Hill, Bobby McGlocklin, Guinn Sparks, and Ervin Terry. Honorary pallbearers will be the men of the 2012 Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Oklahoma Mission Trip.
