William C. Capps

CAPPS William C. Capps Freight supervisor WWII veteran, 82 William C. Capps, 82, died Dec. 30, 2006, in Denver, Colo. The burial of his cremated remains will be Friday at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Arneytown. Friends may call on Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Mundy Funeral Home, 142 Dunellen Ave., Dunellen. Born in Pennsylvania on Jan. 18, 1924, Mr. Capps had resided in Green Brook for 26 years before moving to Colorado in 1996. He had worked as a freight supervisor with American Airlines at Newark Airport for 33 years before retiring in 1984. Mr. Capps was a longtime member of the Green Brook Golf Association, and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He had served aboard the USS Altamaha as a gunners mate second class during World War II in the Pacific Theater. He was predeceased by his first wife, Barbara Boyle Capps, who died in 1977. His family includes his wife, Hermina Bach Capps; a son, William R. Capps Sr. of Browns Mills; a daughter, Vicki Ventriglia and her husband, Daniel of Green Brook; four stepchildren, Henry Zarzemski and Linda Waters, both of Texas, Peggy Keefe of Oregon and Lisa Bach-Reuter of Green Brook; six grandchildren, William R. Jr., Stephanie, Timothy, Jeffrey and Michael Capps, and Alicia Ventriglia; two nephews, Ron and Jim Boyle, and a niece, Debbie Gessel. Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association.