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Carol Elaine Lambert

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 11:11

Carol Elaine Lambert loved animals and Elvis Presley and “was always the life of the party at family functions,” her daughter Dianne Lambert wrote. “Carol had the most beautiful smile and will be truly missed by her family and friends.”

Mrs. Lambert died on March 18 in Port Charlotte, Fla. She was 85 and had been in declining health.

Born in East Hampton in 1939 to Francis James Rea and the former Helen Rosella Mott, she grew up in Springs.

In 1958 she married Kenneth Lambert. They lived in Springs. She was a homemaker, and he served in the Springs Fire Department and worked as an East Hampton Village police officer and later for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department. They had three children.

The couple moved to Port Charlotte in 1993. Mr. Lambert died in 2018.

In addition to Dianne Lambert, who lives in Port Charlotte, Mrs. Lambert is survived by her other children: Kelly Lambert Baker and her husband, Lamar Baker, also of Port Charlotte, and Ken Lambert of Afton, Tenn. She also leaves three grandchildren, Billy Fullam, Sydney Hein, and Nadia Nichols, her siblings Eleanor Heise of Pennsylvania and Robert Greene of East Hampton, and a sister-in-law, Marie Jack of Port Charlotte.

Her brothers Kenneth Rea, Walter Rea, James Rea, and Herbert Hoover Rea died before her.

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