A Celebration of Life Service for Dorothy Lambert, age 94 of rural Ewing, NE, will be 10:00 AM Saturday, August 19, 2023 at Bethany Presbyterian Church, rural Ewing. Burial will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-8 PM Friday, August 18, 2023 at Biglin's Mortuary in O'Neill with a Prayer Service at 7 PM. Memorials may be directed to the Lambert Family Trust to be distributed to Molly's Miracle Makers, Holt County Historical Society, and the Bethany Presbyterian Women. Dorothy passed away on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at the Arbor Care Center in Neligh, NE. Arrangements are under the direction of Biglin's Mortuary in O'Neill.

Dorothy Joyce Bowman was born to Thomas Benjamin Bowman, Jr. and Mary Lucile (Kirk) Bowman on June 3, 1929 at Omaha Maternity Hospital, by cesarean, a rarity at the time. Her family farmed near Albion where she graduated from Albion High School in 1947. Dorothy attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She majored in Home Economics and was a member of the Mortar Board Honor Society when she graduated in 1951.

Dorothy met Stanley Lambert when his Farmhouse Fraternity Quartet would serenade the Love Hall girls. After Stan graduated and moved home to the family farm near Chambers, the two wrote letters back and forth for a year before they married on June 10, 1951 at Albion United Methodist Church. The newlyweds made their home on the Lambert place near Chambers. To this union were born three children: Franklin, Timothy, and Linda.

Dorothy taught Junior High and High School students for several years at Chambers. She then took a job at O'Neill High School, teaching Home Economics. She started and sponsored the FHA Chapters (now FCCLA) at both schools. She retired in the early 1980's due to a paralyzed vocal cord. Dorothy was a lifelong learner, teacher, and avid reader. One summer she spent 3 weeks in New York City studying textiles.

Dorothy had a flare for art. She painted many pumpkins and gourds. She also liked to sew, quilt, and crochet. She enjoyed gardening, canning, cooking, and baking, and judged at many county fairs. She and Stan loved to travel, especially with Stan's 70th Division Army Reunion tour groups in the US and central Europe. She valued each person, and with her incredible memory was able to learn and remember each one's name on large group trips. Dorothy had a happy personality and a joyous laugh!

She was a faithful active member of the Bethany Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Women, Happy Homemakers Extension Club, American Legion Auxiliary, and Holt County Historical Society. Dorothy also helped with the United States Census in 1980.

Dorothy is survived by her three children, Frank (Leslie) Lambert of Minden, NE, Tim (Kerrie) Lambert of Chambers, NE, and Linda Lambert of Atkinson, NE; eight grandchildren; four step grandchildren; four great grandchildren, with several more on the way; and many nieces and nephews, and friends.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Stan Lambert in 2017; one infant great grandson, Kelby Ray Lambert; her brother, Kirk Bowman; her sister, Lucile Zeller; and an infant sister, Louise Bowman.