Robert A. Moore

Robert A. “Bob” Moore, passed away on Friday, April 22, 2011 at his home on Cacaway Farm, surrounded by his wife, Marion, and three children. His family takes comfort that he left this world on Good Friday. Bob was 77 years old. He died following a four-year, valiant battle with prostate cancer. The son of George and Mildred Amrhein Moore of Baltimore City, Bob graduated from City College High School in 1953. He volunteered for the draft the same year and actively served as a Military Police in the Army until his honorable discharge from active duty in 1955. The G.I Bill enabled him to enroll at Washington College, where he met his future wife, Marion Lee Waterman, also a graduate of Washington College. Bob graduated from the college in 1959. Following several years of employment 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. Together they ran the business out of their home until relocating the office to its current location in Chestertown. Bob quickly became a leader in the Kennedyville community, when, greeted by a severe drought and dry well in their recently purchased home, he led the successful effort to obtain funding for and construct the town’s first public water system. He joined the Kennedyville Volunteer Fire Department, serving as Chief for several years. Because he recognized a slow response to fire calls using the alert system of phoning the chiefs or their family members at their home, Bob was active in the county-wide effort to create the first 911 dispatch system. Bob was an active member of Shrewsbury Episcopal Church in Kennedyville, serving as a Senior Warden on the church vestry. He coached his sons in several Kennedyville Little League Baseball teams and helped to organize the first Kent County youth football league, where he served as coach of the Raiders. He and Marion are longtime members of the Washington College 1782 Society. In 1988, he and Marion purchased and relocated their home to Cacaway Farm on the Langford Creek outside of Chestertown, where they enjoyed hours of recreation and bushels of bounty from the river. They are members of St. Pauls Parish, Kent County. Bob enjoyed attending the many lacrosse, soccer and basketball games in which their eight grandchildren participate. 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 of Baltimore 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 in Chestertown. Interment of his ashes will proceed immediately following the service. Friends and family are invited to return to his home at 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.

Robert A. Moore

July 27, 1933 - April 22, 2011