Walter Richard (Dick) Agee, Jr., 19, son of Dr. and Mrs. Walter Richard Agee, 902 Manor Road, was killed early Monday in an automobile accident at Springfield, Mo. Agee died from injuries suffered when a car in which he was riding struck a utilities pole. The driver was a Westminster fraternity brother, John F. Ellis, 20, Spring. Graveside Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Woodlawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:30 to 9 p.m. tonight at their home. They have requested that friends make contributions to the Winston Churchill Memorial Chapel fund at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., where the youth was a student. The Agee family left home Sunday to go to Springfield where on Monday evening they expected to meet an AFS bus carrying Gunella Risberg, of Norrviken, Sweden, who is the “AFS sister” of their daughter, Elizabeth, an AFS student in Sweden. Gunella has been a student at Dixon, Calif., the past year. Elizabeth left June 26 for Sweden to spend the next year with the Risberg family. With the Agees at Springfield were their daughters, Emily, 11 and Julia, 9. Another son Tony, 15, was vacationing at Gunflint Lake, Grand Marais, Minn. Drive into City Dick and his friend Fred Ellis had been with the family Sunday evening at their motel near Springfield and had left to drive into Springfield to spend the night at the Ellis home. Dr. and Mrs. Agee were called several hours later to St. John's Hospital where Dick had been pronounced dead. Since the Agees returned home without seeing Gunella Risberg, they were pleased to have her call them Monday evening from Osceola and asked her to gave details of her brother's death to Elizabeth when she joins her family in Sweden. Dick Agee was a graduate of William Chrisman High School in 1963 and had completed two years at Westminster College. At Chrisman, he played varsity football for three years and was co-captain and quarterback of the 1962 team. He was a member of the National Honor Society there. At Westminster, he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Richard Fluhrer