Camp Capers, located along the Guadalupe River, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this...
The Bell Tower at Camp Capers was rung by campers to signal time for meals, swimming or the end of rest period, as shown in this 1962 photo.One of Steves’ sons, Maj. Walter Steves II, was a pilot in the Air Force. While the committee was looking around for money to buy the camp, Jones said, “it was reported that Walter was missing from his base in Italy. He had taken a flight and had not returned.
Shot down over Austria, as Jones recalled, Walter Steves was captured and taken prisoner by the Germans. During his time in the camp, run by the German Luftwaffe to hold Allied airmen, “he made contact with some of the other prisoners, and they worked out a way by which he could escape and get to a nearby airfield where there were several planes.” There, young Steves figured out how to fly a German plane and flew himself back to his base in Italy.
After only a few weeks, Jones remembered, word came that the missing pilot was back at his base, safe and sound. “In the joy of that occasion, Mr. Steves came to me and said, ‘The camp property is given by the Steves family as a thank offering for Walter’s safe return.’”According to Kendall County deed records, members of the Negley family transferred the deed to their property to Albert Steves on Jan. 12, 1945.
The first “Camp Capers Day” in local churches was held Sept. 16, 1945, when a special offering was collected for a camp building fund. It soon would be named Camp Capers, after the former bishop who died in 1943 after nearly 30 years in office, during a time of two world wars, unrest along the Mexican border and the Great Depression. During those turbulent times, Capers managed to keep the diocesan schools open, start new congregations and nudge the diocese into becoming fully independent for the first time, no longer having to rely on aid from the national church.
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