Emily Lambert has been missing since Saturday, March 1.

Emily Lambert has been missing since Saturday, March 1.

Emily Lambert, a teacher at O. Henry Elementary School in the Richardson ISD disappeared last weekend while visiting a friend in New Mexico.

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The 30-year-old third grade teacher was last seen at about 11:30 p.m. in Carlsbad, New Mexico, leaving the Blue Cactus Bar at Stevens Best Western Inn on South Canal Street. She reportedly left her cell phone and wallet behind.

Lambert grew up in the Dallas suburbs, Hurst-Euless-Bedford, and graduated from University of North Texas. She lives in Lewisville but teaches at an elementary school just north of Lake Highlands — near Plano and Buckingham roads near Berkner High School — and in the same district as Lake Highlands’ schools.

She has two young daughters, Eden and Danika, and she was supposed to return home Sunday afternoon, says her ex-husband and the children’s father Donavan Lambert. (The two divorced in October but remain friends, he says.) But nobody has heard from her since Saturday night.

“She is a beautiful soul, wonderful spirit and everybody that meets her likes her,” he notes.

Adds her friend Angie Goode, “I can honestly say she was by far one of the most happy and contagious people you would ever meet who had a passion for teaching kids.”

Goode along with Donavan Lambert has launched a “Finding Emily” page on Facebook and asks anyone with any information to call the Carlsbad Police Department at 575.885.2111.

Richardson ISD also informed the community about Lambert’s situation today.