LILA K. LAMBERT

Lila Kathleen Lambert, 38, of Wasilla, died of cancer Sept. 11, 2004, at Valley Hospital in Palmer.

A memorial service was held at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 16, at Sunny Knik Chapel at Mile 14 Knik Road in Wasilla, with Pastor Duane Guisinger officiating. Her ashes will be scattered over the mountains of Indian Pass Lake near Slana.

Ms. Lambert was born April 11, 1966, in Monroe, Wash. She completed her high school education in Lake Stevens, Wash. She moved to Alaska in 1986 and lived in Slana for seven years before returning to the Lower 48.

Ms. Lambert lived in Commerce City, Colo., for seven years, where she obtained her nurse's aide certificate and worked for a nursing home. She returned to Alaska in early September of this year to be with her family in Wasilla. She was a member of Sunny Knik Chapel in Wasilla.

Her family said, "She loved her nursing profession and caring for her five children. She enjoyed crocheting and loved to cook.

"She was very outgoing, trusting and loving. She adored her children, loved caring for the elderly and was compassionate to all. She was very forgiving and always put others' needs before her own. Lila was a stranger to no one. She was a true Alaskan adventurist."

She is survived by two daughters, Meagon Dawn and Rebecca; two sons, Bradley and Joseph; her mother, Wanda Craig; five sisters, Maralynn, Jody, Margaret, Donna and El-Freida; three brothers, Billy, David and Phillip and a grandson, Roger. Her father, Donald Craig, and a son, Roger, preceded her in death.

Arrangements were with Valley Funeral Home and Crematory in Wasilla.