We are men who lead, serve, protect and defend, whether we are giving out Coats for Kids, donating wheelchairs, lending a helping hand in disaster relief efforts, supporting local pregnancy centers or providing top-quality financial products.
Robert Edward (Bob) Lamb was born August 4, 1927 in Sarasota Florida to his parents, Elizabeth Ann and Rembert Madison Lamb. Bob passed away on March 12th, 2015 with his family at his side. He is survived by his wife Jimmy D. Lamb, sons Robert N. Lamb and Michael Lamb and daughter Bobbie Haseley. Bob served in the Navy in the Pacific theater from 1944 until 1946 and began his career in the mobile A/C industry in 1959 as an A/C service and installation technician for FrigiKing. Bob is remembered by his contemporaries as being on the front line of the industry’s transition from R-12 to R-134a back in the early 1990’s. He and his company, Triple L Industries (Bob, Robert and Michael Lamb) worked with MACS (Mobile Air Conditioning Society) to collect R-12 from 200 vehicles in Texas in order to determine the viability of refrigerant recycling, and he worked on the design and production of the first generation refrigerant recovery and recycling machines. Later Bob worked as an instructor for Continental Oil Co.; developed training manuals for Jet Air; and was national sales manager for DrafTool Co. While his career accomplishments are long and documented, the Knights of Columbus remember a different Bob. Bob was a visible and happy participant in many (in fact most) of the activities of the Knights for the past 8 years. You could find Bob at the concession stand every Saturday afternoon making French Fries and popcorn and spinning tales of years gone by. Never a dull moment with Bob around. If you missed him there you could always locate him Sunday morning at the 9:30am Mass where, as an usher, he greeted hundreds of people over the years. He was fond of saying that many who came to Mass were just children when he first met them. You pick an event and Bob was there helping wherever he could. And how can we ever forget that laugh – his face just lite up when he laughed and he laughed a lot. He inspired other Knights with his effervescence and his down home way of passing on his joy of life to those around him. Bob’s work accomplishments are well documented, but he hardly ever talked about those; he was more interested in the here and now and how he could help others. Bob had his priorities correct: his Creator, his family, his fellow man. We will continue to miss him and his joy of living for many years.
