Janis Lambert

Janis Evelyn Borden Lambert of Burnsville MS passed from this life on February 26, 2026. A Celebration of Life Service will be Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 2:00 P M at Magnolia Funeral Home – East Chapel with interment to follow in Antioch Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday, February 28, 2026 from 12:00 P M until service time at Magnolia Funeral Home – East. Chaplin Roger Wood will officiate the service. Janis and a fellow co-worker were discussing salvation when the lady told her, “Janis you want everybody to be saved!” Janis answered, “I sure do.” When her daughter was very young, her mother’s favorite Bible verse was John 3:16 and she would go over and over it with her children. Her daughter finally told her “Momma, I’ll never learn that”, and Janis told her, “Yes you will.” Just learn a word at a time and it wasn’t long until her children knew John 3:16. Cody and Janis spent many hours with their children camping out on the lake and getting up to a great smell of breakfast cooking over the campfire. One of the many joys Janis loved was God’s creation and all the beauty around us. She put her beautiful paintings in oils, acrylics and water colors. She used her God given talent to capture on canvas what God gloriously created for us to enjoy. She painted old barns, magnolias and beautiful still life’s. Janis loved her family and wanted them all to be with her in Heaven. She devoted her life to her home, children and her husband and now lives with her Lord and Savior. Janis is survived by her husband of 51 years, Charles Cody Lambert; her four children, Buford Cody Lambert, Buddy Brumley (Laurie), Lisa Lambert Smith and Cynthia Sales (Kelvin); six wonderful grandchildren, Eric Smith (Stephanie), Whitney Collums, Clarissa LaBarre (Selby), Taylor Sales, Christopher Sales and Gianna Sales; three great grandchildren, Esme Smith, Stella Collums and Cora LaBarre; very special sister/cousins, Dee Thomas (Bob) and Mazie Borden; very special friends, Randy Mincy, Keelee and Keegan Mincy and Lisa Mincy; her caregiver, Janie Tensley; other relatives and a host of friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Jay Borden and Ettie Newcomb Borden. Pallbearers will be Eric Smith, Kelvin Sales, Christopher Sales and Randy Mincy. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to Samaritans Purse, St Jude Children’s Hospital or Dr. Charles Stanley In Touch Ministries. Magnolia Funeral Home has been honored to serve the family of Mrs. Janis Lambert.