Gayle C. (Trainer) PRINE LAMB

TRAINER, LAMB, POWERS, PRINE, WALDRON, WALTON, ESQUIBEL, THORSON, TURPEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/15/2016 at 21:41:32

January 14, 1945 ---- March 11, 2016

JOHNSON, KS – Gayle C. Lamb, 71, died Friday, March 11, 2016 at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses. She was born Jan. 14, 1945 to Robert and Doris (Powers) Trainer in Clarion, Iowa. She married Michael Prine. She married Jerold “Jerry” L. Lamb on Oct. 11, 1979 in Dodge City. He preceded her in death in 2014. She grew up in Fort Dodge, Iowa and graduated from Fort Dodge High School in 1963. After high school, she joined the United States Army and was honorably discharged after two years of service. She graduated from Dodge City Community College nursing program in 1994 and became a Registered Nurse. She worked at the Memorial Living Center in Johnson as the Director of Nursing. She retired in 2014 but continued to help as needed.

Survivors include her mother; children: Toby Prine and wife, Jenny, Hays, Heather Waldron and husband, Kent, Johnson, Shelley Walton and husband, Jason, Johnson, Nikki Esquibel and husband, Charlie, Dodge City, Eddie Lamb and wife, Jamie, Des Moines, Iowa, and Paul Lamb and wife, Missy, Tonganoxie; 14 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; brother, Todd Trainer and wife, Mary, Eagan, Minn.; sisters, Sondra Thorson, Fort Dodge, Iowa and Bobbie Turpen and husband, Larry, Council Bluffs, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by her father; and brother-in-law, Doug Thorson.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 19, 2016 at Fields Memorial Wesleyan Church in Johnson with Pastor Kurt Rovenstine presiding. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, March 21, 2016 at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence with military rites conducted by Kansas Military Funeral Honor Guard. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2016 at Garnand Funeral Home in Johnson. Memorials are suggested to the Gayle Lamb Memorial Fund or Memorial Living Center both in care of Garnand Funeral Home, PO Box 715, Johnson, KS 67855.