Memorial services for Rita M. Lambert will be on Wednesday, December 14, 2016, at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) in Brookhaven, MS at 3:00 PM. Bro. Jim Mannon and Bro. Jim Crawford will be officiating the services, with Brookhaven Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will also be at Brookhaven Funeral Home on the same day on from 1:00 PM until the time of the service at 3:00 PM.

Mrs. Rita "Rallie" Miller Lambert, 84, passed from this life on Sunday, December 11, 2016, at Lawrence County Nursing Home with her loving family by her side. She was born on October 13, 1932 in Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, to John "Bayou" Miller and Annie Lafosse Miller. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.

Mother Rita loved to cook, visit with family and friends. She enjoyed wonderful fellowship with people and would always find her sitting around the table talking and laughing with people she loved. She and Daddy Ray once owned a restaurant years ago called "The Country Place". Here they both showed their love for cooking good Cajun food and a warm feeling of good fellowship.

Rita attended First Assembly of God Church in Brookhaven, MS where she enjoyed the preaching of the Word of God and worshipping the Lord through music. She loved her church and her church family. She was devoted to reading her bible and praying for her family and friends daily. She loved meeting new people and in the later years she made wonderful friends who were dear to her heart at Lawrence County Nursing Center. Mama Rita will surely be missed by many.

Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Ray W. Lambert, Sr.; son, Ray W. Lambert, Jr.; sisters, Lori Thibodeaux and Elizabeth Pearl Miller; brother, Elridge "Doc" Miller: and step brother, Eugene Pelican, all of LA.

Survivors are her sons, Carl lambert and wife Debra of Monticello, MS and Gary Lambert and wife Eloise of Clinton, MS ; eight grandchildren, Rebecca, Amy, Chrissie, Jennifer, Kim, Justin, LaDonna and Robert; 16 great grandchildren; sister-in-law Nancy Eileen Grumbles Miller of Dequincy, LA; and a host of nieces and nephews and family and friends.

The family would like to express their love and appreciation to the Lawrence County Nursing Center for all their care and devotion to Mrs. Rita.