Celebration planned to honor life of Virginia Moore, Kentucky's sign language interpreter

The Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing announced plans Wednesday to host a celebration of life next month in honor of Virginia Moore, Gov. Andy Beshear's sign language interpreter who died over the weekend.

The service will be open to the public from 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. on June 11 at View Pointe Hall on the top level of the Muhammad Ali Center, 144 N. Sixth St. The announcement was made in an obituary published through the Scott Funeral Home website.

Attendees are asked to not bring flowers, the organization's Facebook page says, but instead make a donation to either the Kentucky Knowledge Center on Deafness (P.O. Box 618, Frankfort, KY 40602) or the Kentucky School for the Deaf's Jacob's Hall Museum (303 S. Second St., Danville, KY 40422).

If you'd like to send flowers, though, the obituary says they can be sent to Moore's family through the funeral home's site. People can also send memories and messages of support to ScottFuneralHome.com.

Moore died Saturday at the age of 61. She was the executive director of the Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, but was mostly known for appearing with Beshear during the COVID-19 pandemic briefings and during major news events including the Eastern Kentucky floods of July 2022.

Beshear announced her death via Twitter a day after her passing, calling it heartbreaking and Moore a "rock of stability and grace during the pandemic." Moore played a key role in delivering key updates to about 700,000 deaf and hard-of-hearing Kentuckians.

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Reach Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez at abrinez@gannett.com; follow her on Twitter at @SoyAnaAlvarez.

This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Life of Kentucky sign language interpreter Virginia Moore to be honored