NORWAY – A. Sayward Lamb, 80, of Greenwood, and Plant City, Fla., died peacefully May 29, at Stephens Memorial Hospital, surrounded by his loving family and friends.

He was born in Rangeley, on July 14, 1927, the son of Conrad Wilder and Celia Frances Smith Lamb. He was a 1945 graduate of West Paris High School. He was very proud of his Scottish descent.

On Jan. 17, 1948, he married the love of his life Cynthia Allen of Buckfield. He faithfully served his country in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was employed more than 40 years for Andrews Funeral Homes (formerly I.W. Andrews & Son of South Woodstock).

He was a past master of Granite Lodge AF & AM of West Paris; member of Kora Temple Shrine, Lewiston and other Scottish Rite Bodies. He was a member of Oxford County Shrine Club. He was a director and one of the organizers of the West Paris Historical Society; charter member of Ring-McKeen Post 151 American Legion of West Paris; charter member of the West Paris Hunters Club, served 14 years on Troop Committee 132 B.S.A. of West Paris, the West Paris school board and later as a director on SAD 17, as well as a director on the Region 11 Vocational school board. He served on the West Paris Planning Board and was a member of the West Paris Universalist Church. He also wrote for an online sporting magazine Maine Hunting Today.com.

His love of the outdoors was tremendous and this love was passed on to his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was an obsessed and avid hunter, fisherman and author of a book “Deer Tales and Other Tales” published in 2006. A true book of his life’s tales in the woods of Maine. He was an avid wood carver who devoted many hours and great detail to his carvings. Many of these carvings were presented to family and friends alike. A trout that was entered in a carving category at Fryeburg Fair was mistaken for a taxidermy mount. That was the detail that went into his work.

Survivors include his wife Cynthia of 60 years; a son, James and his wife, Chris, of Oxford; son, Ronald of Sebec; daughter, Natalie and significant other, Willey, of Oakland; his grandchildren, Carol and husband, Rick, of Otisfield, Nathan and wife, Angela, of Farmington, Mandy and husband, Mike, of Lagrange, Kelsey and husband, Jody, of Lebanon, Matt and wife, Heather, of Bethel and Wendy and husband, C.J., of Brooksville; his joy was also in watching his great-grandchildren grow and learn to swim and fish at camp on North Pond, Adrianna, Karleigh, Greydin and Matilyn of Otisfield, Lilly and Brucey of LaGrange, and Maisey, Mavrick, Avry, Body and Evan of Bethel; his twin brother, Hayward Lamb, of Charleston, S.C.; two sisters, Elaine Blossom of North Branford, Conn., and Jeanne Whittemore of Norway; and many loving nieces and nephews, many of whom spent some great summers at the family camp on North Pond.

He was predeceased by his parents; and two brothers, Newton S. Lamb of West Paris and Stanton C. Lamb of Philadelphia, Pa.