VIRGIL K. AND WANDA L. MOORE

CHAFFEE -- Funeral mass for Chaffee City Councilman Virgil Keith Moore and his wife, Wanda Lee Moore, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Ambrose Catholic Church. The Rev. Michael McDivitt will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at the church after 3 p.m. today. The rosary will be recited at 7.

Amick-Burnett Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements.

The couple was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1991, near Oran. He was 62 and she was 59.

Moore was born Oct. 2, 1928, at Chaffee, son of Texas and Nellie Alexander Moore. He and the former Wanda Lee Goetz were married June 23, 1951.

He was owner/operator of Moore's Auto Sales and Moore's Standard Service Station here, and had served on the Chaffee City Council 19 years.

Moore was a member of St. Ambrose Church, Chaffee Elks Lodge 1810, and was a charter member of Chaffee General Hospital Board of Directors. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.

Mrs. Moore was born April 20, 1931, near Oran, daughter of Frank and Nora Pobst Goetz.

She was a receptionist at Thorngate Ltd. in Cape Girardeau, where she had worked 23 years. She was a member of St. Ambrose Church and its Daughters of St. Ambrose.

Survivors include two daughters, Kathy Vickery of Sikeston, Kim Mitchell of Winchester, Ky., and five grandchildren.

Mrs. Moore is also survived by a brother, Gilbert Goetz of Festus, and two stepbrothers, Norman Bullinger of Chaffee and Robert Bullinger of Rolla.

She was preceded in death by a stepbrother, and he by a brother.