[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17] [Extensions of Remarks] [Pages 21904-21905] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]REMEMBERING FRANK LAMBERT ______ HON. FRANK R. WOLF of virginia in the house of representatives Monday, November 13, 2006 Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, last week Loudoun County in Virginia's 10th District lost a loyal public servant. Frank Lambert, a former Loudoun County supervisor, passed away on Wednesday, November 8, at the age of 77. I was honored to call Frank Lambert a friend and to work with him on issues of importance to Loudoun County when he served on the Board of Supervisors during the 1980's. Mr. Speaker, I submit for the Record an obituary from the Leesburg Today newspaper of November 10 which describes the public service of Frank Lambert. We send our condolences to his wife Ruby and all his family. [From Leesburg Today, Nov. 10, 2006] Former Supervisor Frank Lambert Dies (By Margaret Morton) A longtime Waterford area resident, Frank Lambert, 77, died early Wednesday morning at Inova Loudoun Hospital's Cornwall Street campus in Leesburg. Colleagues and friends were surprised by the news of Lambert's death. Attorney Steve Stockman, who served with Lambert on the county board when Republicans were a rare breed in Loudoun, knew he had been ill, suffering from pneumonia, but he said Wednesday he had visited him in his home north of Waterford less than a month ago. ``He seemed strong,'' Stockman said. The two Republicans served on the board of supervisors together from January 1984 to December 1987, along with Jim Brownell and Andrew Byrd, with Lambert representing the Catoctin District. ``He was a very nice man, the epitome of a Virginia gentleman,'' Stockman recalled. He described his former colleague as being ``very, very astute, with a brilliant mind.'' Despite a bit of occasional acerbity, ``when he had to,'' Lambert did not try to force his opinions on others. ``He would lay it out and give a brilliant analysis,'' Stockman said. Stockman, who was some years younger than Lambert, said he was also very friendly. ``I learned a lot from him,'' he recalled, describing Lambert as almost ``Reaganesque'' in his warmth and ability to communicate, with a big deep baritone voice. His political philosophy was ``very conservative,'' according to Stockman. After both had left elective office Lambert and former Leesburg mayor and Leesburg District Supervisor Frank Raffo, a staunch Democrat, did a weekly radio talk show and Brownell recalled Wednesday the two had some ``heated exchanges.'' ``He was very principled, very true to his cause,'' Brownell said of his former colleague. ``If ever there were a loyal and faithful Republican, he was it,'' he said. Describing Lambert as ``very, very conservative,'' Brownell, whose support for moderation often put him at odds with GOP stalwarts, said that looking back, however, ``Frank was probably right about a lot of things.'' After Democrat Betsey Brown defeated Lambert as part of the 1987 slow-growth movement, he left active politics, although he remained an ardent Republican, according to Brownell. He also continued in public service as a member of the Loudoun County Library Board and currently as a member of the Loudoun County Animal Control Advisory Board. [[Page 21905]] Winston ``Win'' Porter was chairman of the Loudoun Republican Party when Lambert was on the board of supervisors. He echoed the opinions of Lambert's colleagues, calling him ``very intelligent and capable, with a lot of ideas.'' Don Walker, of Walker and Clarke Construction, recalled another of Lambert's contributions, calling him ``the father of communications in Loudoun.'' Fascinated with radio communications as a youth, Lambert established one of the area's first successful pager companies, Metrocall. Since 1969, he has been president of the Great Eastern Communications Company. He also was a Ham radio operator and held a FCC first class radio telephone license. In the 1960s, Lambert was part owner and manager of WEER in Warrenton and later worked for WAGE in Leesburg. Lambert's pioneering paging business was not without controversy, and some opposed it, especially the tall radio tower that was erected at his home north of Waterford. ``But, no one at the time had instant communications,'' including those who would most need them, such as doctors, nurses or fire and rescue workers, Walker said. Ironically, he recalled, one of the opponents had a heart attack and it was one of Lambert's pagers that helped save her life. But Lambert was more than just a successful businessman to Walker. ``He was my neighbor and friend, from the day he moved here in the mid-1970s,'' he said. It was a friendship that lasted from the first day. Walker, as a young man, met the older Lambert, when he went up to help him move into his house, to Wednesday morning's news that he had died. Describing Lambert as ``a very professional and academic man, a caring member of the community and a great lover of animals,'' Walker asked him to be godfather to his two sons. ``I would trust him with anything I had, or would hope to have, in my life,'' he said this week. He is survived by his wife Ruby; sons Roger Lambert of Andros Island, Bahamas, and Christopher Lambert of Waterford; grandsons Michael and James Lambert; granddaughters Constance and Angela Lambert; and brother Roland Lambert of Connecticut. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13 at Union Cemetery with the Rev. Edwin Urban officiating. ____________________