Marci Jo Lambert

Marci Jo Lambert, age 86, formerly of Kearney, passed away Friday, December 22, 2023 in Texas. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m., Friday January 5th, 2024 at Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral Home with Pastor Clint Cozier officiating. Burial will follow at the Kearney Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday, January 4th, 2024 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to the family for future designation. It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Marci Jo Lambert, a beloved resident of Kearney, NE for over 60 years. She most recently had lived in Allen, TX to be near her daughter. Marci Jo was born on January 9th, 1937 in Concordia, KS to John Vernon and Helen (Benson) Nicodemus. She grew up in David City, NE where she attended grade school and high school, graduating from David City High School in 1954. She graduated from Kearney State College in 1957 with a degree in teaching, where her focus was in home economics. Marci Jo married George Garrett Lambert on June 22nd 1958 in a small family wedding in David City, NE. They had three children: Marci Ann Sarter of Plano, TX, Robert Lambert (Julie Heidemann) of Scottsdale, AZ and Charles Lambert (Julie Paprocki) of Omaha, NE. Marci Jo was a member of the marching band in high school as the drum majorette, she was active in 4-H and that’s where she began her interest in sewing and baking. She also was the Nebraska Cherry Pie state champion in 1954. Marci Jo and Gary Lambert raised their family in Kearney, NE where she taught school at Kearney high school from 1958 until 2003. Outside of her teaching career, Marci Jo enjoyed cooking, baking, sewing and quilting, she was a member of the sewing and quilter’s guild. She was an active bird watcher and enjoyed feeding the birds in her backyard, she was especially fond of the red cardinals. She was active in the PEO, and Kearney Jaycees. She was strong in her faith and attended both the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches. She loved her husband Gary deeply and enjoyed spending time with her kids and grandchildren and would often plan trips and vacations to get the entire family together. One of the special things that she did each summer when the grandchildren were young was hold Camp Kearney, where she would teach the grandkids how to sew, bake and make crafts. Because of her focus on getting the family together, her three kids and eight grandchildren have a special bond that carries on today. Marci Jo made a personalized quilt for each one of her grandchildren for their High School graduation that will be a life long memory from their Grandma. Marci Jo and Gary also enjoyed going to sporting events and traveling throughout the United States and abroad taking trips to Alaska, Africa and different parts of Europe. Marci Jo was preceded in death by her parents, her father and mother-in-law, Hobart and Melba Lambert. Those left to cherish her memories are her husband Gary, of 65 years, her three children and spouses and her eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren, Danielle (Sarter) and her husband Chaz Hawkins, Lindsay (Lambert) and her husband Colin Stewart, Emerson Stewart, Turner Stewart, Dack Lambert and his wife Lexi Goettl, Harrison Lambert , Lauren Sarter, Morgan (Lambert) and her husband Ryan Bell, Jodi (Lambert) and her husband Connor Kuhlman, Madeline (Lambert) and her husband Jake Schleppenbach, and MacKenzie Lambert and her finance Ben Searle. She is also survived by her brother JV Nicodemus.

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Marci Jo Lambert

January 9, 1937 - December 22, 2023