Mary Elizabeth Rowden Lamb

Elizabeth (Betty) Rowden Lamb died on Friday, July 18, 2025. She was a native Atlanta, born on October 23, 1928, and grew up in Inman Park. Her parents were Allene and Jim Morgan. Betty graduated from Girls High School in 1946 and attended The University of Georgia in Athens and Georgia State in Atlanta.

She married her childhood sweetheart, Charles Rowden, and was married 46 years before his death. After being widowed for nine years, she married Thomas Kelsey Lamb of Beaumont, Texas. The Rowdens and Lambs, as couples, had been business friends for 35 years. After their marriage, Betty and Tom’s lives were full of joy keeping a home in Atlanta, Georgia and Beaumont, Texas, and traveling back and forth. She would say she felt sorry for anyone who wasn’t her. Betty held many jobs and each one she felt was the best. Her first job was with the Coca-Cola Company for 14 years before her family. She remained loyal to Coke her lifetime and would not like to support any place that didn’t serve the product. After her family, she worked with three and four year olds at Shallowford Presbyterian Church Preschool and later as a showroom manager at the Atlanta Gift Mart. She was an elder of Shallowford Presbyterian Church and would serve wherever needed, especially in the women’s work.

Elizabeth’s greatest joy was her family, including daughter, Elizabeth Malanoski (Tim) and son, Christopher Rowden (Tammy); her seven grandchildren, Morgan (Emmy), John, and Caitlin Malanoski; and Zachary (Charis), Matthew, Allene, and Peter Rowden; and her two great- grandchildren, Danielle and Vivian; and her beloved husband of 22 years, Thomas Lamb and his family of four children Janey Broussard (Joey), Tommy Lamb (Kathryn), Linda Dennis (Michael), and Marshall Lamb (Carmen), 10 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service for Mrs. Rowden Lamb will be held 10:00 a.m., Saturday, August 2, 2025, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 680 Calder Avenue, Beaumont, under the direction of Broussard’s, 2000 McFaddin Avenue, Beaumont. All are invited to join the family for a reception immediately following the service in the Cloister Room. Her interment will be at Dawn Memorial Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia, at a later date.

In lieu of flowers the family has suggested donations be made in her honor to Exceptional Futures at https://efatl.org/donate/ or P.O. Box 173, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046.