Age 89, Sterling - Graveside service will be 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Elgin Cemetery with Rev. Jack Pilgrim, officiating. Mr. Lambert died Tuesday in Lawton. Burial with military honors will be under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home of Fletcher. He was born the eighth of ten children to Jacob Lee and Lizzie Mae Guest Lambert on June 23, 1919 near Sterling, Oklahoma. He was the last to survive of ten children. He attended school in Sterling and left school in his sophomore year to join the Civilian Conversation Corps during the depression years. While in the CCC he served in Oklahoma, Arizona and Wyoming. He returned to Sterling, finishing his high school education as class president of the Class of 1941. He briefly attended Oklahoma A&M College. When World War II began he went to California and worked in aircraft plants building B24 bombers and PBY sea planes. IN 1944 he entered the U.S. Army and in a very short time was involved in the invasion to liberate the Philippines. He served in the battles on Leyte and Mindanao islands. Japan surrendered and he was sent to Korea. In 1946 he was discharged at the rank of Staff Sergeant after having earned the Asian Pacific Service Ribbon with one bronze star, the Philippines Liberation Ribbon, the World War II Victory Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge. On March 1, 1947, he married Kathleen Elliott in Lawton and began a partnership which would last for more than sixty two years. In April 1947 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served with the Japan occupation force. He returned to civilian life in April 1950 where he and Kathleen purchased a farm near Sterling. He built it into a dairy farm and developed a prize Brown Swiss dairy herd. In 1975 he sold the dairy business and went into the beef cattle business. He retired in 1985. He and Kathleen were able to continue living in retirement on the farm and in the community among the friends and neighbors they loved for the next twenty years. In 2005 they moved to an assisted living center in Lawton where they continued to enjoy frequent visits from many of those same friends and neighbors. He is survived by his wife, of the home; a sister in law, Ruth Lambert; and many nieces and nephews. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sterling First Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 6, Sterling OK 73567 or to the Charity of the Donor's Choice.