Ches, Evelyn, and Jerry Franklin Lambert

Ches, Evelyn, and Jerry Franklin Lambert

Lambert, William Chesley "Ches" (1914-2004)

Lambert, Evelyn Pauline (Eckard) (1916-2004)

Lambert, Jerry Franklin (1941-2020)

Family photograph of Ches Lambert, seated, with his wife, Evelyn (Eckard) Lambert beside him and their oldest son, Jerry Franklin, on her lap. Another son, Wayne A. “Butch” Lambert, and a daughter, Bonnie Jo Lambert, were born after this photograph was taken.

Ches Lambert was the son of William F. and Mary Lottie (Painter) Lambert, a farming family from the Madison District of Shenandoah County. He married Evelyn (Eckard) Lambert in 1936. In the 1940 census, he worked as a produce dealer and lived in rural Woodstock with his wife.

Evelyn Pauline Eckard was born in Hamburg, the daughter of John F. and Vertie Alice Eckard. Evelyn was a 1934 graduate of Madison College and taught public school in Shenandoah County.

Jerry Franklin Lambert attended public school in Woodstock, then went to Bridgewater College where he graduated with a degree in business. He married Betty (Bemis) Miller in 1967, and for the next several decades, the couple worked together in the nursing home business, first in Woodstock and then at Staunton Manor Nursing Home, Staunton, Virginia.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

Labelled "July 1942" on box of plates.

Identified by Ellen Dellinger.

Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.

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