Barbara Louise Lambert went to be with her Lord and Savior on August 13, 2022 at 8:37am in Oklahoma City surrounded by her family at home. Barbara was born on December 27, 1931 in El Paso, Texas to Clyde and Sally McKnight. Barbara met the love of her life, Robert Lambert when they were introduced by a mutual friend in an ice cream shop in 1947. They married the next year on April 12, 1948, and they were happily married for 68 years until Robert’s passing in 2016. During their life together, they lived in Texas, the Philippines, and California before settling in Oklahoma City in 1980. During her life she worked as a dietician, a seamstress, owning her own business, and property management, before she retired in 2012. She was a member of Springdale Baptist Church, and enjoyed studying her bible and watching religious programs. She always wanted to be surrounded by beautiful things, and took joy in sewing, gardening, cooking, crocheting, and painting to create them. She loved her faithful companion, her dog Boots, until his passing in March 2022. Most of all, she loved her family and her happiest moments were spent with them.
Barbara was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her son, Walter her great granddaughter Allysun Lambert, and her sisters, Joan Weatheread and Mary Hamlett. She is survived by her daughter, Sally Berhalter and husband, Raymond of Oklahoma City, son, Robert Lambert Jr. of Yukon, son, Joseph Lambert, and wife, Vecy of Redding, California, daughter-in-law, Tammy Lambert of Poteau, Oklahoma, and sister, Billie Clay and husband, Dave of Redding, California. Barbara also leaves behind her twelve grandchildren Shelley Baker and husband, Jeff, Rosalee Murphy and Chris Valencia, Kelly Pfaff and husband, Dave, Kathryn Berhalter, Diana Lambert, Robert Lambert, Stacey Dowdy, Brian Lambert, Joseph Lambert, Jennifer Kyle and husband, Matt, Laura Lambert and Laura Gonzales, and by her eleven great grandchildren, Danielle Baker, Samantha Baker, Luke Baker, Emilie Murphy, Sofia Valencia, Harper Pfaff, Nichole LaFever, Katelynd Lambert, Parker Presley, Grayson Dowdy, and Addyson Dowdy, along with countless additional family and friends.
Barbara will always be remembered as a beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and a dedicated and faithful servant to her God.
A funeral service for Barbara will be held Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at Chapel Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens, 8701 NW Expressway, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73162.
