Lutie Lorraine Capps

LUTIE LORRAINE CAPPS, 95, departed this life on Saturday, June 18, 2011 in Lubbock. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. Saturday June 25, 2011 in the chapel of Starrett Funeral Home with Dayton Keesee officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Lutie was born in Sullivan, Indiana on December 15, 1915 to the late Edward and Clara (Pigg) Neal. She graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and taught until retiring from Prairieland Elementary School in 1984. She married Arthur Vincent Capps in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1946. For the last eight years of her life, Lutie has lived with her oldest son, Dick, and his wife Pat. She was a member of Central Lubbock Church of Christ and Westwood Church of Christ in Paris.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur; three sisters; and one brother.

Lutie was a faithful Christian and loving wife and mother. She will be dearly missed by her daughter, Nancy Mathis and husband Gary; two sons, Dick Capps and wife Pat and Joseph and wife Sherry; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.