Roberta Capps Moore

Roberta Capps Moore, 88, of Liberty, died September 24, 2008, in Liberty, Mo., after a long illness. Roberta "Bobby" Lou Casteel was born on October 31, 1919, in Princeton, Mo. She was the eighth of the 10 children of Herbert Cain Casteel and Corah Alice Brantley Casteel. She attended Princeton schools, William Woods College, and the University of Missouri at Columbia, where she received a degree in social studies. She married Joe Hall Capps on June 22, 1941, and thereafter made her home in his hometown of Liberty. They were the parents of seven children. Joe Capps, Liberty businessman and land developer, died in 1981. On May 12, 1990, Bobby married Lowell Garl Moore, an old friend from Princeton. In addition to being a homemaker, Bobby Capps was active in numerous civic endeavors. She was a 4-H club leader for 15 years. She served the city of Liberty on the citizens advisory board, the human relations committee, and the bicentennial commission in 1976. She was a 50-year member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, serving as regent of the Alexander Doniphan DAR Chapter, as treasurer and regent of the Missouri State Society, and as vice-president-general and a committee chairman of the national society. She was a member of the DAR speakers' staff, writing and delivering patriotic speeches. In 1971, she received a Valley Forge Freedom Foundation award for patriotic endeavor. Bobby was active in politics with the Republican Party. She was president of the Liberty Republican Women's Club, and member and treasurer of the Clay County Central Republican Committee. She worked in numerous election campaigns and was herself twice a candidate for elective office in Clay County. She was a member of the Missouri Republican Committee from 1981 to 1984 and then served as Missouri's National Committeewoman for 16 years. She was a delegate to five quadrennial national conventions and an alternate to a sixth. Bobby was a longtime member of the Baptist church and a Sunday school teacher for more than 50 years. In 1975, she was ordained a deacon, one of the first women to be selected by the denomination. She would later be chairman of deacons for the South Liberty Baptist Church and then the Second Baptist Church of Liberty. Roberta Capps Moore was preceded in death by her first husband, Joe Capps; a son, Joe Curtis Capps, who died in infancy; a grandson, Joe David Clevenger; and seven brothers and sisters. She is survived by her husband, L. G. Moore, who now lives in Lincoln, Neb.; by six children and their spouses: Herbert Lee Capps (and wife Nancy) of Jefferson City, Mo., Mary Alice Dobberstine (and husband E. L.) of Liberty, Robert Casteel Capps (and wife Josephine) of Liberty, George Hall Capps (and wife Martha) of Des Moines, Iowa, Thomas Cain Capps (and wife Marcia) of Liberty, and Martha Lou Capps (and husband Richard Ward) of Eden Prairie, Minn.; by 16 grandchildren: James Martin Clevenger, Jill Clevenger Bartlett, Jennifer Lee Capps, Brent Jason Dobberstine, Philip Lee Capps, Sarah Capps Hamburg, Leslie Capps Eakes, Kathryn Anne McDaniel, Patrick Michael McDaniel, John Curtis Capps, Daniel Cain Capps, Michael Walsh Capps, Scott Hall Capps, Casteel Lou O'Byrne, Jessica Hall Capps, and Ellen Capps O'Byrne; and by six great-grandchildren: Kyle Charles Cleveland, Austin Joseph Clevenger, Madison Louise Dobberstine, Chase Elizabeth Bartlett, Parker Joe Bartlett, and Davis Casteel Eakes. She is also survived by two brothers: Herbert Cain Casteel, Jr. of Carthage, Mo., and James Dudley Casteel of Greenville, S.C., and by numerous nieces and nephews. Visitation will be Sunday, September 28, from 4-6 p.m. at Park Lawn Northland Chapel, 1-35 at 291 Hwy., Liberty, and the funeral service on Monday, September 29, at South Liberty Baptist Church, 650 E. Ruth Ewing Road, at 1 p.m. Memorials are suggested to the "Roberta Casteel Capps Scholarship" of the Missouri Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, or to the Alzheimer's Association in care of Tom Capps, 2 S. Main, Liberty, MO 64068. (Arr.: Park Lawn Northland Chapel, 816- 781-8228.)