She began her educational journey in the Dougherty County School System where she graduated from Monroe High School. She later graduated from Albany State College in 1964.

She has been an active member of her community for decades. Dr. Rambeau is known by many as a teacher, which she dedicated over 38 years of her lifeto teaching in the Dougherty County School System and Darton State College. She also taught various Christian Education Courses and worked tirelessly at various churches and venues, speaking and writing. In 1992, she was ordained as the first Baptist female minister in the area. She later founded House of Refuge Baptist Church.

Dr. Rambeau seemed to be a leader earlier on in life. She was a civil rights activist as soon as the Civil Rights Movement came to Albany State College (University). She was one of the leaders in the movement and helped organize her fellow students to march in a demonstration to protest the arrest of the first five students that tried to integrate the bus station. She wrote a poem entitled, "A Brighter Day," published in the Albany Herald, which expressed her disappointment and addressed the fear of students that were afraid to participate in the movement. Dr. Rambeau, co-penned Oh Prichard, Oh Kelly, while she was jailed during the Civil Rights Movement, here in Albany, GA. The song, later recorded, on the Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs, 1960-1966 and placed in the Smithsonian Institute. She was later interviewed in the PBS six hour dramatic documentary, This Far by Faith:

Episode 4 Freedom Faith . Dr. Rambeau is also one of fifty-two women, whose personal account of the Civil Rights Movement, featured in the book, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.

Her actions as a leader have earned her many awards, and honors over the years. Recently, she was given an additional bachelor's degree has one of those forty students that were suspended in 1961, from Albany State College (University) for being arrested during the Albany Movement. In 2012, during the fiftieth anniversary of her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, Julian Bond and the City of Atlanta honored her in Atlanta, Georgia.

She was an intense teacher and has produced many lessons and works over the years that are still used by other school systems, teachers, ministers, and churches today.

She earned a Doctorate in Christian Education, a Doctorate in Pastoral Ministry, Masters' Degrees in French, English, and Christian Education, and Bachelors' of Arts Degrees in French. Rev. Dr. Rambeau was one of the first four women to graduate with her Master's in Christian Education from Bethany Seminary in 1992.

Dr. Rambeau leaves to cherish her memories a loving and devoted husband of 52 years, Deacon Ralph Rambeau; her three children, Rev. Melvin (Bertha) Rambeau, Sr., Dr. Lillian Rambeau (Bishop Jimmy) Sneed, and Deacon Marvin (Jasholyn) Rambeau; six grandchildren, Melvin C. Rambeau, Jr., Paul Rambeau, Jayda Robinson, James Robinson, III, Matthew Rambeau and Michael Rambeau; one great-grandchild, Elizabeth Marie Russell; god-children Rev. Melvin and Rev. Linda Blocker; life long friend Mrs. Annette Jones White; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, along with other relatives and friends.