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     Lonnie Lee Laird married Erna Louise Holtkamp before 1940.

     Richard Allen Laird was born on 15 September 1948 at Stanton, Martin County, Texas.^1,2 He was the son of William Valton Laird and Luamae Odell.¹ He died before 2013.¹

     Sue Ernice Laird was born on 2 December 1940 at Denton County, Texas.³ She was the daughter of Lonnie Lee Laird and Erna Louise Holtkamp.⁴ She married Charles Edward Shuler, son of Raymon Brazil Shuler and Bertha Allene Terry, circa 1957.¹ She died on 21 June 2016 at Texas at age 75.⁵ Sue Shuler
December 2, 1940 - June 21, 2016
Burleson, Texas

Sue was born on December 2, 1940 and passed away on Tuesday, June 21, 2016.

Sue was a resident of Burleson, Texas at the time of her passing.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM Saturday June 25 at the Lucas Blessing Funeral Home Chapel 518 SW Johnson Avenue Burleson. Don Leverett will officiate.Burial will follow at the Burleson Memorial Cemetery.Visitation will be on Friday from 6:00 until 8:00 PM at the funeral Home.⁵ Sue Shuler, 75, passed away Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday at Lucas & Blessing Funeral Home. Burial: Burleson Memorial Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. Survivors: Sue is survived by her two daughters; three sisters; and a grandson.⁶

     William A. Laird was born circa 1885 at Cisco, Eastland County, Texas.¹ He married Pearl McCanlies before 1920.

     William Valton Laird was born on 10 May 1920 at Post, Garza County, Texas.² He was the son of William A. Laird and Pearl McCanlies.² He married Luamae Odell between 1943 and 1944.¹ He died on 9 September 1979 at Travis County, Texas, at age 59.³

     Hiram Colby Lamb married Sarah Belsora Ridgeway.

     Theodocia Ernest Lamb was born on 24 September 1885 at Kerr County, Texas. She was the daughter of Hiram Colby Lamb and Sarah Belsora Ridgeway. She married William Cyrus Westfall, son of James Irvin Westfall and Malissa Jane Wiley, on 3 February 1902 at Texas. She died on 29 May 1918 at Coahoma, Howard County, Texas, at age 32.

     Major Albert Bond Lambert was a prominent St. Louis aviator and benefactor of aviation.

Lambert was a Police Commissioner of St. Louis and a local industrialist. In 1906 he became interested in aviation, and took ballooning lessons. In 1907 he was one of the founders of the Aero Club of St. Louis. (The Club used “military” titles; hence Lambert’s title “Major.”)


In 1909 Lambert met the Wright Brothers, and purchased his first airplane from them. He took flying lessons from Orville Wright, and in 1911 became the first St. Louis resident to hold a pilot’s license. During World War I he served in the Aviation Section of the United States Army Signal Corps, as an instructor in ballooning and parachuting.

In 1920, for $68,000, Lambert purchased Kinloch Field, a 550-acre field northwest of St. Louis, which had been used for hot air balloon ascensions. For the next seven years, Lambert, at his own expense, developed the field with runways and hangars. In 1927 Charles Lindbergh used Lambert Field (as it had been renamed) as the starting point for his famous flight to Paris. The following year, 1928, Lambert sold the field to the city of St. Louis for $68,000, the same price he’d paid for it before making improvements. Lambert-St. Louis International Airport thus became the first municipal airport in the United States.¹ He was born on 6 December 1875 at USA.¹ He was the son of Jordan Wheat Lambert and Elizabeth Liscome Winn.² He died on 12 November 1946 at USA at age 70.¹

     Gerard Barnes Lambert was born on 15 May 1886 at Missouri.¹ He was the son of Jordan Wheat Lambert and Elizabeth Liscome Winn.¹ He died in February 1967 at Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, at age 80.²

     J.D. Wooster Lambert was the last surviving financial backer of Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. He was a former president of the Lambert Pharmacal Company and of the old Lambert Aircraft Corporation, which made light planes. The present St. Louis airport (Lambert International Airport) is named for his brother, Major Albert Bond Lambert. Albert and J.D. participated in early cross-country balloon races. A graduate of Princeton University, he spent most of his busines life with the family's pharmacal company, which manufactured Listerine. He served in France during WWI as a Lieutenant with the 79th Division.² He was born on 2 February 1889 at Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri.³ He was the son of Jordan Wheat Lambert and Elizabeth Liscome Winn.⁴ He and S.Louis Von Phul survived a fall of 8,000 feet into the Mississippi River while making their maiden balloon voyage from the Aero Club of St. Louis on 12 June 1910 at Baden, St. Louis County, Missouri.⁵ He presented child actress Mary Miles Minter (Juliet Reilly-Shelby) with a small French poodle named Woof-Woof. circa 1912.⁶ He filmed the "Maid of McMillan" written and directed by Dan Bartlett and Donald Stewart in May 1916 at St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri.⁷ He married Emily May Milliken, daughter of John Thomas Milliken and May Patrick, before 1926 at USA.¹ He and Emily May Milliken were divorced on 28 December 1936 at Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri.¹ He was a defendant in a suit brought by Dorothy Sabine, a former chorus girl. Miss Sabine testified that J. D. Wooster Lambert, St. Louis manufacturer, excused his failure to pay her a $300 a month salary by telling her he had loaned $200,000 to a friend. Miss Sabine is suing for $35,100 for services as statistician, secretary and companion to Mr. Lambert. in April 1937 at New York, New York County, New York.⁸ He married Mary Turner on 19 July 1937 at New York, New York County, New York.⁹ He died on 9 May 1976 at USA at age 87.³