Dorothy Lambert Doughty

Fayette native Dorothy Lambert Doughty died January 18, 2019 in DeKalb, IL.  She was 100 years and four months old.  She was the longest-living person in her extended family.  She was a sister of the late Robert Lambert of Fayette, and an aunt of Kathie Lambert Cybela of Fayette.  Other area survivors are Gary Lambert of Stanley, Nathan Damge of Oelwein, and Margaret Doughty Damge, of Stanley.  

Dorothy Lambert Doughty was born September 21, 1918 in Fayette, a daughter of Elsie Mae Chittenden Lambert and George Grover Lambert.  She graduated from Fayette High School in 1936.   She later attended nursing school in Chicago, but it closed due to the Great Depression of the 1930s.  

During the summer of 1936, she was working as a nurse’s aide and cook at the Fayette county farm where she met John R. Doughty, also of Fayette.  John was a DHIA (Dairy Herd Inspection Association) state milk tester, who came to the county farm with state inspectors for lunch.  Dorothy was working in the kitchen that day, and baked pies using apples grown and harvested on the county farm.   The inspectors were so impressed; they summoned the cooks from the kitchen.  This was the fateful day when Dorothy met John Doughty.   They were inseparable for the next 60 years.  John used to joke, “I married your mother for her apple pie.”  

Dorothy Lambert and John Doughty were married October 26, 1940 at the Methodist parsonage in Fayette.  Their attendants were Belva and Paul Doughty of Oelwein.  John was a son of Art and Clara Doughty, of Fayette. 

In 1941, John was hired as a field representative for Pure Milk Association, representing hundreds of dairy farmers in 7 northeast Illinois counties.  They lived in Sycamore, IL for four years.  In 1947, they moved to their family farm in rural Burlington Township where they raised their family.  Dorothy attended Elgin Community College, and participated in local school and church events. 

Her husband John preceded Dorothy in death in 1996, by her parents, by her brothers Richard, Ronald, and Donald in infancy, and her sister Agnes Cave.  She was also preceded in death by a son-in-law Robert Reimann, Jr. and a daughter-in-law Shereen Stanton Doughty.  She was preceded in death by Fayette area family including: Blanche and Sheldon Chittenden, Goldie and Huber Donaldson, Berle Thompson and her daughter Merle Sternberg, Clyde and Thelma McFarlane, and her in-laws, Art and Clara Doughty and all of the Doughty families. 

  Survivors include John and Dorothy’s 8 children:  John R. “Dick” Doughty of Burlington township, IL; Dean (Annette) of Brimfield; Dale (the late Shereen) Doughty of Snohomish, WA; Clair (Wendy) Doughty of Colorado Springs, CO; Lee (Diane) Doughty of Marion, IL; Cheryl (Tom) Osran of Chicago; Douglas (Jeanne) Doughty of Mt. Prospect, IL; and Neil (Anne) Doughty of Elmhurst, IL; by 19 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren and another great grandchild expected in June 2019.  

Internment at Elmwood Cemetery in Sycamore, IL.  Memorials can be sent to Burlington, IL United Methodist Church,  195 E. Center St. Burlington, IL 60109