Home, Georgetown. (512) 863-2564. Francis Randolph Moerke Francis Randolph Moerke, of Austin, a former newsman and one of the state's best known calligraphers, died Monday, May 21, 1990. Randolph Moerke was born November 17, 1897, in Fort Hamilton, New York, of immigrant German parents. He was a bugler in the Calvary of the United States Army, 1916-1920, include participation in General John J. Pershing's expedition in Mexico in 1917, in pursuit of the rebel Pancho Villa. After World War I, having previously apprenticed as a printer's assistant, he moved to California to become an advertising salesman at newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area, and at one of the largest California advertising agencies. Mr. Moerke moved to Austin with his first wife, Ada Moses, of Burnet, Texas, in 1940, already having developed the unique talent that would make him a major figure, though often not recognized by name, in literally thousands of official and semi-official documents for the next half-century of Texas history. In 1946, he became advertising director of Texas Student Publications, which publishes The Dally Texan and other student publications, taught in the University of Texas journalism department; and later became advertising manager of Von Boeckmann-Jones, a printing and office supplies company, from which he officially retired in 1965. But Randolph Moerk never stopped