Hugh Nolan Lambert, Sr., age 84, of Brevard, North Carolina, passed away on Sunday, January 17, 1965.

He was a native of Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina and son of the late Albert Jefferson Lambert and Martha Ann Hall Lambert. He was also preceded in death by his first wife, RosaLee Elena Smith Lambert; 4 sons; Herbert Lambert, Jarrett Lambert, Jesse Lloyd Lambert and Fredric Lee Lambert; 1 sister. Nannie Ichibo Lambert Allison, 4 brothers, Jesse Briscoe Lambert, Thomas Osborne Lambert, Sammy Keo Lambert, Rev. Joseph Jackson Lambert, and a grandson, Larry Lee Lincoln Lambert.

He was a Member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

A businessman and farmer he had been the State Champion Corn Grower for the past five years and the Transylvania County Champion for 16 years. He was a deacon and Sunday School Teacher at the Mount Cherryfield Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Ava Laurena Hall Lambert; 5 daughters, Mary Anne Lambert Luff, Virginia Caroline Lambert Sweet, both of Cherokee, North Carolina, Betty Ann Lambert McCall of Brevard, North Carolina, Sarah Kay Lambert Owen, of Easley, South Carolina. and Peggy Sue Lambert Massey of Greenville, South Carolina; 7 sons, Paul Leroy Lambert, Sr., of Charlevoix, Michigan, Arthur James Lambert, Sr., of Murphy, North Carolina, Albert Smith Lambert, of Cherokee, North Carolina, Hugh Nolan Lambert, Jr., of Miami, Florida, Richard Randolph Lambert of Brevard, North Carolina, Roy Adams Lambert, of Brevard, North Carolina and John Hall Lambert, of Etowah, North Carolina; one brother, James Westall Lambert, of Bryson City, North Carolina; 25 grand children and 7 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at Mount Moriah Cherryfield Baptist Church with the Rev. Dan Wallin, Rev. Clyde Smith and Rev. Wade Sinclair. Burial will follow at Pisgah Gardens, Pisgah Forest, Transylvania County, North Carolina.

Hugh Nolan Lambert, Sr, was born on December 26, 1880 at Galimore Creek, Big Cove, Swain County, North Carolina on the Cherokee Indian Reservation. He graduated from Hampton Institute in 1902, at Hampton, Virginia. After graduating he stayed on for awhile and taught Agriculture at the school, before returning to Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina.

An Ex-Chief F. B. Bauer, wrote:
In the death of Hugh Nolan Lambert, marks the loss of one of the greats of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. He was a farmer and could take a rough and rocky hillside and make it produce abundance. He served as the Government Farmer for the Indian Bureau at Cherokee for several years. Much of the farming know-how of the Cherokee Indians can be credited to his work at the Cherokee School. He was a God-loving and God-fearing man.