MOORE, Robert L. 1909-1965

MOORE, ZWERNEMAN

Posted By: Karen L. Robertson (email)
Date: 8/2/2011 at 20:12:45

Memorial services for Robert Lee Moore, 55, who died of cancer June 22 at Queen's hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii, were held October 2 at the First Lutheran church in St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Don Comnick in charge. Burial was in the Carpenter cemetery.

Mr. Moore was born in Nashville, Tenn., November 12, 1909. He attended the Hume Fogg school at Nashville and graduated from Southeastern University in Washington, D.C. with an accounting degree.

He joined the FBI in 1930 and three years later was appointed special agent.

Before going to Honolulu in July, 1940, he served in a number of cities including Birmingham, Ala., Seattle, Wash., Sioux Falls, S.D., Cleveland, Ohio and Washington, D.C.

In 1941 he was married to Hazel Zwerneman, formerly of Carpenter, Iowa. The marriage took place in Honolulu.

Moore resigned as special agent in charge of the FBI in Hawaii in 1946, to accept a position as industrial relations director for Alexander and Baldwin in Honolulu. Thirteen year later he moved to Nevada to become chief of investigation for the Nevada State Gaming Control Board which regulates the gambling industry, remaining there two years.

He returned to Honolulu in 1961 to open his own private investigation office.

Survivors include his wife, Hazel, a daughter, Margaret Lee, in the Laura Baker school at Northfield, Minn.; two brothers, Heber of Nashville, Tenn. and Yuill R., Pensacola, Fla.

St. Ansgar Enterprise