Lambert, Benjamin H. – 1916-1992

BROWN, DIXON, HINES, HULL, KIEL, LAMBERT, LINDROTH, MAXWELL, PEAVLER

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 7/1/2016 at 14:40:02

Services Held
Benjamin H. Lambert, 75, of Monroe, a resident of the Monroe area since 1944, died Wednesday, April 1, 1992, at the Des Moines General Hospital.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the Monroe United Methodist Church.
The Rev. Jerry McGee, pastor of the church, conducted services.
Burial was in Silent City Cemetery in Monroe.
Memorials to either the Monroe or Prairie City Emergency Units will be accepted.
Survivors are his wife, Viola; two sons, Mervin Gene of Davenport and Herman Wayne of Tipton, two daughters Vivian Brown of Bettendorf and Violet Lindroth of Des Moines; 12 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are two brothers, Nelson of Monroe and Arthur of Missouri City, Texas, and six sisters, Allalie Dixon of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Wilma Hull, Anona Smith, Bonnie Kiel and Clara Peavler, all of Brookfield, Missouri; and Carol Lambert of Mountain View, California.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, two sisters and a daughter, Virginia Elaine.
Mr. Lambert was a member of the Monroe United Methodist Church, the Methodist Men, the Monroe Kiwanis Club and the United Auto Workers, Local 997, Retirees Union.
Mr. Lambert, a Maytag Co., employee in Newton for more than 30 years prior to his retirement, also was a house painter and wall paperer.
The son of Alfred and Mary Hines Lambert, he was born September 17, 1916, in Browning, Missouri.
He was married to Viola Maxwell April 8, 1939, in Chillicothe, Missouri.
Source: Monroe Mirror; ; 09 April 1992