Ralph Charles Lamb Jr.

Mr. Lamb died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, at Porter Hospital in Denver.

He was born April 5, 1931, in Amarillo, Tex., the son of Ralph Charles and Ruth Sanders (Roth) Lamb. He graduated from Wichita East High School and received a bachelor of science degree and a master’s degree in geology from Kansas University.

Mr. Lamb was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity at KU and received many academic honors and awards. He worked at Chevron Oil Co., where his work took him to New Orleans, San Francisco, and Bogota, Columbia, where he was in charge of Overseas Co. He moved back to San Francisco in 1977 and then to Denver in 1978, where he lived for three years before moving to Copenhagen, Denmark. He later worked independently in Oklahoma before he became vice president for Enron Oil and Gas Co. in Houston. He retired in 1994 and lived in Greenwood Village.

He married Margaret Longwood on June 6, 1953, in Stafford. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include two daughters, Sarah Weigel, San Rafael, Calif., and Kathryn Nunnally, Concord, Calif.; a son, Robert, Dallas; a sister, Terri Michaels, Overland Park; two brothers, James, Houston, and Frank, Wichita; and four grandchildren.

Friends may call from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Lamb-Roberts-Heise Funeral Home in Baldwin.

The family suggests memorials to the Ralph C. Lamb Jr. Geology Opportunity Fund at Kansas University geology department, sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin 66006.