Myrtle Stanford Lambos

She was a graduate of Peabody Demonstration School and Ward-Belmont College. While attending Vanderbilt University she excelled in music, mainly classical piano and vocals, and toured with the University’s A Cappella Choir. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church.

Though her family was always her main focal point in life, Myrtle dedicated many hours of time helping promote her second love: music. She was quite active with The Nashville Symphony. After joining the Symphony Guild in 1957, she went on to chair many committees and served as President of the Guild’s Ladies Auxiliary and Chairwoman for the 1967 Italian Street Fair.

Myrtle, also, served many years for Fannie Battle Day Home, the Ladies Hermitage Association, Cheekwood, and as President of the Lebanon Road Garden Club (one of the South’s oldest garden clubs that her mother helped organize in 1929). Preceded in death by two brothers, Robert Donnell Stanford, Jr. and Harold Edwin Stanford, she is survived by daughters, Donna Brown (Vaughn) Woods, Elaine Brown (Ray) Nathurst, Sheila Lambos (Arthur) Reuther; a son, Chris Evans Lambos, Jr; a granddaughter, Elizabeth Lauren Reuther; three grandsons, James William Barr Jr, Donnell Christopher Barr, Arthur Miller Reuther III; and great granddaughter, Molly Kate Barr.

Visitation at Cheek House at First Presbyterian Church, 4815 Franklinn Pike, Nashville, today, May 31, 2011 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Funeral service Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 11:00 at First Presbyterian Church with visitation from 9:30 until 11:00.

Interment will follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Pallbearers: Arthur Reuther, Jr., Ray Nathurst, Vaughn Woods, James Barr, Jr., D. C. Barr, Miller Reuther, Ed Stanford, and John Perdue. Honorary pallbearers: Staff at The Meadows Nursing Center.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Arthritis Foundation or Alive Hospice.

Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home 660 Thompson Lane Nashville, TN 37204 (615) 383-4754