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Loretta "Lorry" Margaret Riley Lambert died in White River Junction, Vermont, on Tuesday, June 4.
She was born in Jackson, Michigan, on May 4, 1931. A graduate of St. Mary's High School in Jackson she received an AB from St. Mary's College, South Bend, Indiana, in 1953.
While attending college in South Bend, she met John "Jack" F. Lambert from Darien who was attending the University of Notre Dame across the street. They married in 1953.
After Jack finished law school and a federal judicial clerkship, they settled in Greenwich in 1957 and in later years, split their time between Greenwich and their second home in Conway, New Hampshire.
Lambert was a homemaker while she raised her six children. She started teaching 5th grade at the Greenwich Academy, a position she held for about 25 years. Her passion in education was literacy and even after retiring she continued this focus, tutoring underprivileged children in reading.
She is survived by her six children: John (Kim) of Cumberland Foreside, Maine, James or Jim (Lauren) of Larchmont, New York, Loretta or Peggy Allen (Todd) of Hartford, Vermont, Eileen of Ramsey, New Jersey, Elizabeth or Liza Henshaw (Richard) of Waccabuc, New York and Philip (Kirsten) of Ramsey, New Jersey and 16 grandchildren: Emily, Deirdre, and Julia Lambert; James and Alexa Lambert; Kate (Colin Wilke)and Lorretta (Jason Edes); Isabel and Phoebe Bejarano; Rick, Jack and Riley Henshaw; and Spencer, Jake, Riley and MacKenzie Lambert.
Lambert was predeceased by her parents, Phillip Arthur Riley and Loretta Margaret O'Meara Riley, her brother, Martin Riley, and is survived by her brother, Phillip Riley of Jackson, Mich.
A funeral was held Wednesday, June 12 in Greenwich.
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