Ruth Lambert

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Clinton Lambert, age 90 of Bainbridge, GA, will be held Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 2:00 PM at Cox-Ware Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. David Grubbs and Rev. Larry Johnson officiating. Interment will follow in Pisgah Cemetery with Garrett Rice, Jimmy Holcher, Eric Floyd, Russell Floyd, Bejon Anvar, Wesley Roland, Tony Christopher, Wes Lambert, and Mike Rice serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at Cox-Ware Funeral Home Chapel. Mrs. Lambert was born September 26, 1919 in Bainbridge, GA to the now late Alex and Lela Jowers Clinton. She was married to the now late Willie Lester Lambert, and was a member of West St. Baptist Church. She was a homemaker, a member of th Port City Modulators (a CB radio club), was the oldest of her siblings, and was a Native American descendant of the Creek Nation. Mrs. Lambert passed away Friday, October 23, 2009 at Memorial Hospital surrounded by her loving family. She is survived by two daughters; Juanita Griffin and husband Buddy of Bainbridge, GA and Linda L. Jennings and Roger Wlison of Climax, GA; three sons, Ronnie Lambert and Leonard Lambert of Bainbridge, GA and Terry Lambert and wife Joyce of Brinson, GA; two sisters, Pat Carroll and Ann Clenney of Tallahassee, FL; one brother, Earl Clinton of Bainbridge, GA; thirteen grandchildren, nineteen great grandchildren, and six great-great grandchildren. Mrs. Lambert was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her children, Faye and Hermie Lambert; siblings, Mildred Thornton, Mary Price, Alex Clinton Jr., G.W. Clinton, Ossie Mae Bass, Frank Bass, Porter Webb Bass, and Odessa Kelly.