"Mary Ware, 87, of Amarillo, died Tuesday, March 14, 
2000.

   Services will be at 2 p.m. today in N.S. Griggs 
& Sons Funeral Directors Pioneer Chapel, 2615 Paramount 
Blvd., with the Rev. Windell Taylor, chaplain at 
Veterans Affairs Health Care System, officiating.
Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.

   Mrs. Ware was born in Oklahoma and had lived in 
Amarillo for 52 years. She had been a foster mother 
for several children. She had been a member of the 
auxiliary and MOCA at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 
No. 1475 and Fairview Baptist Church.

   She married Lawrence Ware in 1950 at Clovis, N.M.
He died in 1997. She also was preceded in death by
a son, Terry E. Ware, in 1968.

   Survivors include five daughters, Sally McDole 
of Ingleside, Patsy Lyon of Alaska, Donna Green and 
Freda Wolford, both of Mineral Wells, and Frances 
Foster of Wichita Falls; a son, Jimmy L. Ware of 
Wichita Falls; two sisters, Mabelle Worsham of 
Sacramento, Calif., and Wanda Flanagan of Amarillo;
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

   The family suggests memorials be to Baptist 
St. Anthony's Hospice.

   The family will be at 3709 E. 17th Ave."

Source: Amarillo Daily News, March 17, 2000