Bobby Lawrence Capps

January 22, 1937 - September 20, 2013

Bobby Lawrence Capps, age 76 of Brookfield, died Friday September 20, 2013 at Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Missouri. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm Tuesday September 24, 2013 at Rhodes Funeral Home with Reverend Bill Montgomery officiating. Visitation will be held from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Monday September 23, 2013 at the funeral home. Burial with Military Honors will be in Parklawn Memorial Cemetery, Brookfield. Memorials to the family may be left at or mailed to the funeral home, 216 Linn Street, Brookfield, MO. 64628 Bobby was born on January 22, 1937 in Indian Grove, Missouri, son of Lawrence Olyx and Lula "Mae" Mistler Capps. On October 26, 1984 he married Phyllis Catherine McCune in Miami, Oklahoma. He retired from Churchill Truck Lines in 1994. He was a member of the Brookfield Masonic Lodge #86 AF&AM, and served in the U.S. Army in France from 1962 – 1966. Survivors include his wife, Phyllis of the home; two daughters, Robin Petree, Kearney, Teresa and Davon Lark, Brookfield; four sons, Buddy and Angie McCune, Laclede, Billy Ed and Marla McCune, Marceline, Bill and Diane Capps, Plattsburg, James and Deanna Capps, Kansas City; nine grandchildren, five step-grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren; one brother and sister-in-law, Don and Phyllis Capps, Laredo; one sister, Melba Jones, Alamogordo, New Mexico, and several nieces and nephews. Bobby was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, one sister, one infant sister, and one grandson, William DeCale McCune.