Edith E. H. Lambert
Born: 14 March 1878
Called as Second Counselor in the Primary General Presidency: 1933
Released: 1939
Died: 3 May 1964
Called as Second Counselor in the Primary General Presidency: 1933
Released: 1939
Died: 3 May 1964
Biographical Articles
Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 4
Church Website, Church History Biographical Database, Edith Elizabeth Hunter
Church Website, Church History Biographical Database, Edith Elizabeth Hunter
Jenson, Andrew. "Lambert, Edith E. H." Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 4. pg. 288.
LAMBERT, Edith Elizabeth Hunter, second assistant in the general superintendency of the Primary Association, was born March 14, 1878, in Salt Lake City, a daughter of James Hunter and Agnes Leatham. She was educated in the grade schools of Salt Lake City, the Salt Lake High School and the University of Utah. She taught school in Davis County four years and in Salt Lake City twelve years. She held office in the 6th Ward, Salt Lake City from the time she was 15 years of age, and in 1902 became a member of the Salt Lake Stake Sunday school board. She was president of the Pioneer Stake Primary Association from 1904 to 1907, when she went on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands, spending three years there; during thirty months of this time she taught the mission school. She became a member of the general board of the Primary Association Oct. 11, 1910, and on April 27, 1916, was married to James N. Lambert and left immediately afterwards with her husband on a mission to New Zealand, over which mission he had been called to preside and where he and his family (consisting of a daughter, Phyllis James, and a son, Claude Needham) remained four years, or until 1920. On April 1, 1917, at Auckland, New Zealand, a son (Paul Hunter Lambert) was born to Brother and Sister Lambert. During this mission Sister Lambert visited most of the branches in the mission in the interest of the Relief Society and Primary Association. Bro. Lambert died Sept. 12, 1927, as assistant superintendent of the Dr. Groves L. D. S. Hospital, after which Sister Lambert who had previously served as matron of the nurses in that institution, continued to function in that capacity until called into the general presidency of the Primary Association in 1934.
LAMBERT, Edith Elizabeth Hunter, second assistant in the general superintendency of the Primary Association, was born March 14, 1878, in Salt Lake City, a daughter of James Hunter and Agnes Leatham. She was educated in the grade schools of Salt Lake City, the Salt Lake High School and the University of Utah. She taught school in Davis County four years and in Salt Lake City twelve years. She held office in the 6th Ward, Salt Lake City from the time she was 15 years of age, and in 1902 became a member of the Salt Lake Stake Sunday school board. She was president of the Pioneer Stake Primary Association from 1904 to 1907, when she went on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands, spending three years there; during thirty months of this time she taught the mission school. She became a member of the general board of the Primary Association Oct. 11, 1910, and on April 27, 1916, was married to James N. Lambert and left immediately afterwards with her husband on a mission to New Zealand, over which mission he had been called to preside and where he and his family (consisting of a daughter, Phyllis James, and a son, Claude Needham) remained four years, or until 1920. On April 1, 1917, at Auckland, New Zealand, a son (Paul Hunter Lambert) was born to Brother and Sister Lambert. During this mission Sister Lambert visited most of the branches in the mission in the interest of the Relief Society and Primary Association. Bro. Lambert died Sept. 12, 1927, as assistant superintendent of the Dr. Groves L. D. S. Hospital, after which Sister Lambert who had previously served as matron of the nurses in that institution, continued to function in that capacity until called into the general presidency of the Primary Association in 1934.