John 'Jack' W. Lamb, 86

John "Jack" W. Lamb, 86, passed away at his home in Columbia Falls on Nov. 1, 2015. He was the fifth child born on Aug. 8, 1929, to Ira and Elsie Lamb.

Jack worked with his dad on the farm and with various other farmers in the area. He spent two summers with his uncle working the haying season in North Park, Colorado, with no motorized equipment everything was done with teams of horses. Jack was in “seventh heaven” those two summers.

Jack married Delores (Smith) in 1955. In 1956 the beauty of the mountains called him back to Colorado. The family lived in the Denver area until 1965, out of the city, to the foothills west of Denver, for the next nineteen years. Jack enjoyed hunting and fishing while he lived in Colorado. Travel and polka dancing filled a lot of his spare time. Jack worked in the shops of ICX, Consolidated Freight Way and King Soopers Grocery before he retired from the Union Local 961.

He was in the Army during the Korean conflict; however, he was sent to Germany.

Wanderlust set in again in 1999, the family moved to Montana their son Dave offered them a spot of land to put a double wide home on, Jack was very happy there. Dave was busy with his job, so Jack became keeper of the land, next best thing to a farm of his own.

A stroke on his birthday in 2013 slowed him down but could not stop him; he continued doing the chores he could manage for the next two summers. Life was hard the summer of 2015!

Jack is survived by his wife of 60 years, Delores; daughter Linda of Lakewood, Colorado; sons, Dan of Williston, North Dakota, and Dave of Columbia Falls; also seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; sisters, Laverne Reckmen of Lake City, Minnesota, and Beverly Lange of Markesan, Wisconsin; brother, Don of Lake City, Minnesota, and numerous nieces and nephews across the United States.

There will be a memorial service for Jack at noon on Monday, Nov. 9, at the Church at Creston. A luncheon will follow services. Private urn burial took place at Woodlawn Cemetery.

Columbia Mortuary is caring for Jack’s family.