Collin Co., TX - Obits: Billie Joyce Lambert ******************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ Contributed by: Elaine Bay ******************************************** Billie Joyce Lambert, loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister, passed away after a brief illness on June 12 at her home surrounded by her family. She was the daughter of Bill and Alice Ellis. She was born in Salt Gap, Texas. She lived in Van Alstyne, Texas, for many years, and had spent the last ten years living in Rockwall, Texas. Joyce Leaves behind her husband, Steve M. Lambert; daughter and son-in-law: Dora Jean and Joe de Leon; granddaughter: Dannel Mayhall; five sons and their wives, John and Carol, Stevie and Flo, Michael and Becky, Bobby, and Guy and Dee; 11 grandchildren; 10 great-grand children; brother: Granvel Ellis; sister, Glenda Dodson; and several nieces and nephews. A visitation will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday June 15, 2008, at Charles W. Smith and Sons Funeral Home 601 S. Tennessee Street in McKinney, Texas. A graveside service for Joyce will take place at 2 p.m. Monday June 16, 2008, at Fitzhugh Cemetery, Lucas, Texas, with Rev. Mary Beth Hardisty -Crouch officiating. She was very loved and will be greatly missed. ~ ~ ~ Star Community Newspapers, Friday, June 13, 2008