LeeRoy Dale Lambert
LeeRoy Dale Lambert, 87, of 1404
Hillcrest, died Thursday (July 29, 1999) at Via Christi-St. Francis
Regional Medical Center in Wichita.
He was born Sept. 16, 1911, in rural
Elbing to David and Hattie Lois (Guinty) Lambert. He served in the
8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group as a master sergeant from February
1942 to November 1945. He married Margaret Snell on July 21, 1945 in
Wichita. She survives of the home.
He retired as a district manager and
sale representative for Rexall Drug Co. He was a member of the Church
of Christ in Newton, the Masonic Lodge in Clearwater, the Scottish
Rite in Wichita, the Air Force Association, the Disabled American
Veterans and the American Legion in Newton.
Other survivors include a brother,
Hubert Lambert of Peabody and a sister, Lucille Patterson of Las
Vegas, Nev.
Visitation will be until 5 p.m. today,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday at
Petersen Funeral Home.
A graveside service will be 9:30 a.m.
Monday at Pleasant View Cemetery in Elbing. A memorial service will
follow at 11 a.m. Monday at the Columbus Avenue Church of Christ with
Minister Jerry Rushford officiating.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Maude Carpenter's Children's Home or the Church of Christ in Newton.
