Bill and Nancy Moore Collection

William Eugene “Bill” Moore was born in Jonesboro, Illinois on June 7, 1932. During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1950-1954. He then reenlisted from 1958 to 1962. Mr. Moore then attended the University of Wyoming and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973.

Nancy Rechard Moore was born in August of 1950. About a year after her birth, the Rechard family moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico when her father, Ottis Rechard began a job with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The family moved again in 1956 to Pullman, Washington, and Mrs. Moore attended Fairhaven College, Western Washington University. It was here that Mrs. Moore became a member of the Baha’i Faith in 1968. In 1970, she transferred to the University of Wyoming, where she helped found a Baha’i college club.

It was at the University of Wyoming that Mr. and Mrs. Moore met. The couple married on June 19, 1971, and later moved to Newcastle, Wyoming.

In 1976, Mr. Moore graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Master’s Degree in education. He served as the educational diagnostician for Newcastle School District No. 1 from 1973 to 1994 and continued to substitute teach until 1999. The couple hosted a number of foreign students and visitors as well as foster children, and in 1989, Mrs. Moore graduated from the University of Wyoming at Casper with a degree in social work and began work in the field of medical social work.

The couple remained active in the Newcastle, Wyoming community. Mrs. Moore became the manager of the Baha’i Faith organization in Newcastle, the business of which she conducted from the couple’s home, and in 1999, the couple purchased KASL Radio, a local Weston County, Wyoming radio station.

Bill Moore died on October 12, 2003, and Nancy Moore moved to Montana in 2004.