LENA MAE WARE, 61, of Memphis, press cleaner at Carwile’s Custom Cleaners, died of heart failure Tuesday at Delta Medical Center. Services will be at noon Saturday at Lily of the Valley Missionary Baptist Church with burial in New Park Cemetery. Gillespie Funeral Home in Olive Branch, Miss., has charge. She leaves a daughter, Jacqueline Evans, and four sons, Roy L. Curry, Preston Evans Jr., Charleston L. Ware and Melvin L. Ware, all of Memphis; four sisters, Dorothy Ranson and Grace Warren, both of Memphis, and Emma Jean Atkins and Maxine Tribune, both of Shelby, Miss.; two brothers, Wesley Randall of Leavenworth, Kan., and Alexander Walker Jr. of Los Angeles, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Source:  Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) – Friday, May 29, 1998