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Peter Lamb Obituary

Peter Hull Lamb, beloved husband of Lorena Patricia Alejo Rojas, died on August 1, 2023 while visiting his parents. He was 44. Born in Hartford on January 8, 1979 to Peter Perry and Hilda Hull Lamb, he grew up in Canton Center, CT. He attended Canton schools and graduated from Canton High School in 1997. He graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in photography.

Pete had an adventurous spirit. He had no fears and wanted to live life to its fullest, the good and the bad. He lived life on his own terms. He had wanderlust. He traveled to Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Bolivia, Peru, Columbia, all of Central America, Canada and 48 states before arriving in San Cristobal de las Casas Chiapas, Mexico. There he fell in love with the Maya people. Their culture deeply influenced his life and work. He opened a shop selling beautiful Mayan textiles made on back strap looms. Pete traveled to remote villages to buy their wares and knew each small enclave's patterns and colors. He visited most of the Maya archaeological sites throughout Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.

He then moved to the small beach town of Mazunte on the Pacific coast where he and Lorena owned three shops that catered to tourist trade. He was active in his community.

His love for Truro, Cape Cod where he spent the summers of his youth endured throughout his life. He recently spent 10 days there with his parents where he loved to walk the beach and hike in the dunes and pine forests.

He was continuously exploring and deep dive learning. He was very spiritual. He had uncompromising beliefs and an insatiable curiosity. He was opinionated, funny, smart, irreverent, kind, generous, loving, totally loyal to those he cared about, outspoken and did not suffer fools. He was very political and loved to argue and debate. He cared deeply about the poor, the oppressed, the downtrodden and the environment. He loved reading, music, movies, the beach, science and nature. Play a few chords and lyrics of any Grateful Dead song and he knew all the words and could tell you what concert, the year, who was in the band at the time. Ask him about any movie and he could tell you the year it was made, the director, and every movie he directed, who the actors were and every movie those actors were ever in.

His mother recalls a harrowing by life changing trip through Guatemala with him where they hitch hiked to the Mayan ruin of Tikal. He woke her before dawn to climb a pyramid so they could watch the sunrise. From there they rode chicken buses into the remote highlands to visit small Maya communities.

As a friend said "He will have lived more life than I ever will even if I live to be 300 years old."

Besides his wife and parents, he leaves behind to grieve his aunts and uncles, Carolyn Hull (Ernest) Fuller, Hannah Hull (Arthur) Rice, Peter (Gail) Hull, all of Gettysburg, PA, Lucia Lamb of Farmington and his cousins, Lisa, Richard, Daniel, Preston, Emily and Christian. He was predeceased by his grandparents, Louise and Stanley Hull and Vera and Richard Lamb, his uncle Curtiss Lamb and aunt, Jeannie Lamb Scraggs.

Quoting the same sentiments about his beloved Grandma Louise when she died, "Know that all that Pete was is still out there making its way through All of us in one form or another, shaping the world in his image."

There will be no calling hours. Pete's ashes will be spread at Ballston Beach, Truro and Punta Cometa, Mazunte.

In lieu of flowers, please honor his memory by being kind and loving to one another. Give back to your community, help the needy, travel, explore and continue to learn and better yourselves daily.

Please visit Pete's Book of Memories at www.vincentfuneralhome.com for online tributes.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by Hartford Courant from Aug. 10 to Aug. 17, 2023.

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Ron Sachs

August 5, 2024

Lovely life
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Ron

August 20, 2023

300 lifetimes
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Parrish Hager

August 13, 2023

Dear Hilda & Peter,
My heart goes out to you both on the sudden loss of Pete. It was a shock to all of us & I wish you didn't have to go through this loss. I am deeply honored that you want me to have Pete's beloved Trans Am. I will give it a loving home here in my garage with the rest of my Pontiacs. Hopefully, one day I will get it back on the road & take you for a ride! That would be the ultimate tribute to your son. Thank you for thinking of me. Emily & I love you both very much. I wish I could give you a hug in person.

Nini Muto

August 12, 2023

Hilda and Peter, We are so deeply sorry for the loss of your wonderful Pete. What an amazing person, and the world is so much better because of him. Our whole family is keeping you close in our thoughts. I whole-heartedly agree with your sentiment that "all that Pete was is still out there making its way through All of us".

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Betsy

August 11, 2023

Dear Hilda and Peter,
Please know our warmest thoughts are with you. Please accept our deepest and heartfelt sympathy.
Betsy, Kate and Beth

Bradley

August 11, 2023

Pete was a solid guy. I met him at Hampshire in the photo dept. Bright, curious, and full of life. We reconnected in Mazunte last year. Still full of so much life and spirit. My heart goes out to Lorena and the rest of his family.

Linda Buchanan

August 10, 2023

My deepest condolences on this devastating loss. Peter sounds like he was an extraordinary human being, you have written a moving and beautiful commemoration of his far too-short life. He had so much left to do.

Our sons never met, but they overlapped in their time at Hampshire College, Nick (Harrity) was Class of 1999F (as Hampshire notes the start, rather than the finish). I like to think their paths may have crossed.

Nick shared many of Pete's interests, especially photography - his passion - music, film, politics and travel (although his travel was more aspirational, whereas Peter's was astonishing, extraordinary). What an adventure Pete made of his life!

We lost Nick 10 years ago, also suddenly, unexpectedly, at 31, 9 months after the loss of his little brother at 21, 11/7/2012. So I write here 11 years into the journey you have just begun, hoping that I may offer some very small comfort through the deep admiration of Peter's life from a stranger. Yesterday, Aug 8, my annual In Memoriam notice for Nick appeared, a day late - and I got his death date wrong, confusing it with his brother's. Ah, irony. But I mention it because the notice was a simple one - the lyrics to The Grateful Dead's Ripple, which we played at Nick's memorial service a decade ago. Another poignant connection.

Thank you for sharing your joy, pride and profound grief at your loss of your kind and wonderful son. How lucky we all were to have these big hearts with us for as long as we did. So lucky.

With deep respect and a humble bow,

Linda Buchanan

Hope Noar

August 9, 2023

Pete sounds like my kind of guy. I knew most of his family and I loved them all, especially Curt, Lisa, Peter, Hilda, and Lucia Lamb. After reading his obituary, I wish I could have met him. I am a very kind, giving, loving, compassionate person, and I intend to honor his memory by doing even more good deeds. The world has lost a very special man. I only hope we can all learn from him.

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