Barbara Ray (Lambert) Dean

Barbara Ray (Lambert) Dean, age 86, of Enterprise, AL, passed away Saturday, April 21, 2018 at Medical Center Enterprise. Funeral services will be held at 12:00 Noon, Sunday, April 22, 2018 at Searcy Funeral Home and Crematory Chapel with Brother Roy Ward and Brother Elray Jenkins officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 11:00 AM until service time. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Coffee County Habitat for Humanity, PO Box 311354, Enterprise, AL 36331. She was born in Frisco City, AL on October 7, 1931, to Robert Lambert and Minnie Jewel Sawyer. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She was a believer that the worldly and earthly blessings you receive were to be enjoyed but also to make it possible that those who came into her home might too enjoy those things. With a heart of compassion and humility she spent her life in service to our Heavenly Father in feeding the hungry and clothing the poor. Everyone that ever came inside her door never left wanting for the things of this life. Her many years of service and compassion was an example to many. She had many hobbies including homemaking with a special fondness for oil painting. Mrs. Dean was preceded in death by her husband, Ramon E. Dean; grandson, Stacy Dean Powell; her parents, Robert Lambert and Minnie Jewel Sawyer; step-parents, Myrtle (Norris) King and Cecil King. Survivors include her children, Pennie Kelley (Jeff), Paula Crean (Pat), Dyke E. Dean, Pam Carter; 9 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; sister, Loretta L. McKenzie; brother and sisters-in-law, David Dean (Louise), Carolyn D. Findley (Leory). It is with a grateful heart that we are blessed that Barbara received love, compassion and kindness from her friends, EH&R 7th hall nursing staff, MCE ICU and 4th floor nursing staff, Dr. Alan Young and Southern Care Hospice. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Barbara Ray (Lambert) Dean, please visit our flower store.