MOORE , Robert A. On Friday, April 22, 2011, Robert A. "Bob" Moore, at his home on Cacaway Farm near Chestertown, MD. He was 77. The son of George and Mildred Amrhein Moore of Baltimore City, Bob graduated from City College High School in 1953. He served as a Military Police in the Army until his honorable discharge from active duty in 1955. He was a 1959 graduate of Washington College, where he met his future wife, Marion Lee Waterman. For several years he was as an agency service representative with Aetna Life and Casualty, he and Marion purchased the William B. Dukes Insurance Agency in Kennedyville, MD and renamed it Dukes-Moore Insurance Agency. He later relocated the office to its current location in Chestertown, MD. Bob quickly became a leader in the Kennedyville Community, when, greeted by a severe drought and a dry well in their recently purchased home, he led the effort to obtain funding for and construction of the town's first public water system. He served as Chief of the Kennedyville Volunteer Fire Department for ten years and was active in the county-wide effort to create the first 911 dispatch system. In addition to his wife, Bob is survived by his daughter Chrissy, her husband, Ned, and their two children Libby and Jeb; his son, Michael, and wife Wendy and their two daughters Megan and Kaity; and his son, Tim, and wife Carol and their four children Madeline, Taylor, Dylan and Hannah. His brothers Kenneth P. Moore and Raymond G. Moore of Lutherville survive him.
A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday April 30 at 11 A.M. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 7975 Sandy Bottom Road near Chestertown. Interment of his ashes will proceed immediately following the service. Friends and family are invited to return to his home in Cacaway following the service for food and fellowship in his memory. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Chester River Association, Wye River Upper School or the Kennedyville Volunteer Fire Company.