Born December 13, 1931 in Woodruff County, Arkansas to Robert Lee and Nina Collier. Virginia Lee Lambert passed from this world at Sanctuary Hospice in Tupelo, MS on April 14, 2016 following a long illness.
Virginia was a retired AT&T telephone operator who was an active member of the Communication Workers of America. As the wife of a U.S. Navy submariner, she lived in locations from Groton, Connecticut to Honolulu, Hawaii. She was a parishioner at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Corinth, MS and was a devoted mother and grandmother.
She was preceeded in death by her husband, Harris Dalton Lambert; by her parents, and by her siblings Billy Wayne Collier, Robert Thomas Collier, and Iva Jean James.
Surviving Virginia are daughters Karen Lee (Tommy) of Clinton, MS and Kimberley Gutschmidt (Burkhard) of Magdeburg, Germany; sons William Lambert of New Orleans, LA and Joseph Lambert of Nashville, TN; sisters Belinda Chaney and Marie Baldwin of Cabot, AR, Barbara Cursey of Hernando, MS, and Sarah Mann of Nashville, TN; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Arrangements for a memorial service will be announced at a later date. Holland Funeral Directors-Tupelo assisted the family locally.
Memorial contributions may be sent in Virginia’s name to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church P.O. Box 1225 Corinth, MS 38835.
