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Delphine
Campa Moyer November
28, 1942 – September 15, 2023
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Delphine Campa Moyer Delphine Campa Moyer, 80, a retired paraeducator,
CIA analyst, preschool treasurer, pianist, photographer, wife, mother, and
grandmother was born in Washington, DC; November 28, 1942. She died on September 15, 2023. Education Del attended Elementary and Jr. High
School in Cheverly, MD but moved to Bethesda, MD just in time to be the first
graduating class of Walter Johnson High School. She attended the University
of Maryland (“Fear the Turtle”) where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Latin
American Affairs. During her time at UMD she was part of the sorority Alpha
Gamma Delta and lived in Anne Arundel Hall. Marriage In 1971 Del was introduced to Harold
Moyer by a coworker of hers who attended Bethel UCC in Arlington, VA with
Harold. Unbeknownst to either, she had
already introduced five other couples to their future spouses. Del found Harold to be a good
conversationalist and despite buying her liquorish candy on their first date (which
she hated) they continued dating. On
August 18, 1973, they were married at Bethel UCC. Career Del followed in her father’s footsteps
and while still in college she worked as a summer intern for the CIA. She and her sister also worked as ushers for
DAR Constitution Hall. Where, although
technically working, she got to see many great concerts and performances and got
paid for it. After graduation she
began working full-time for the CIA.
With a degree in Latin American Affairs the CIA naturally put her in
the Middle East branch. The Latin
American branch was fully staffed and the Middle East branch was not and
needed analysts that had a “facility for language”. After leaving the CIA she was always happy
to have spent those years in the Middle East branch. She felt it gave her more insight into
current events for decades to come. After
taking a few years off work when David was born, she began working as the
treasurer for the preschool at Millian Methodist Church where she and Harold
computerized the whole accounting system.
After both boys were in public school, she got a job as a computer lab
assistant at Einstein HS where both boys later attended. Later she became the front office secretary
at several schools in the county. Church After she started dating Harold, she
began attending Bethel UCC in Arlington, VA.
When they moved to Wheaton, they attended Millian Methodist Church for
many years but finally felt at home at St. Paul’s UMC. She was a middle and
high school UMYF counselor for both boys and was active in the St. Paul’s Friendship
Club. She always enjoyed attending the UMM Pancake breakfast. It became a monthly time to see her sons
and later grandsons volunteering for the church. She attended St. Paul’s most Sundays and
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Hobbies As a young child Del had asthma and without the advantages of modern medicine this caused her to miss a large amount of school. She spent this time becoming an Anglophile, admiring England and their Royalty. She would read countless articles about the United Kingdom’s young new queen and with the help of her father, learned how to properly collect, document, and scrapbook those articles. Del, like her father, took piano lessons from a young age. When she moved to Bethesda, Mrs. Brown became her piano teacher. Mrs. Brown would later (much later) be her son David’s first piano teacher. Del would spend hours playing on her Knabe 5’ grand piano. She enjoyed playing a wide variety of music from Mozart’s 12 variations on Ah vous dirai-je, Maman (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) and Fur Elise to West Side Story and John Denver. She was an avid collector of Hummel figurines and Norman Rockwell artwork. She was active in ABWA (American Business Women’s Association) with her sister and some of her closest friends Susan Day, Betsy Spence, and Linda McCleary. And she was an avid photographer, even winning an award from the Montgomery County Fair for a beautiful picture of a weeping willow and its reflection on a lake. While her sons may not have always appreciated it in the moment, the thousands of photos she took over the years leave behind a record of countless treasured family memories that can be shared for years and generations to come. Survivors She is survived by her beloved twin sister Josephine Campa, her two sons David Paul Campa Moyer (Jill Marie Larson) and John Harold Campa Moyer (Paula Payne Moyer) four grandsons David’s Children: Mark Thomas Moyer, Colin David Moyer, and Liliana Marie Larson and John’s Children: James Richard Harold Moyer and Nolan Walter Thomas Moyer all of Bethesda, MD. She is also survived by siblings-in-law Donald L. Moyer of Galion, OH, Kenneth B. Moyer (Lois Moyer) of Lansdale, PA, Kathy Moyer Bravo (Michael Bravo) of Abington, PA and Steven P. Moyer of Perkasie, PA. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of nearly 50 years Harold Dennis Moyer, loving mother Irene Quintana Campa and father David Lopez Campa. Additional photos and digital copies of this program can be found at: |