“Funeral services were held Monday at 3 p.m. in the Chapel of Memories for Virgil Lonzo Ware, 76, retired Stephens County farmer, who died Sunday at 11 a.m. in Breckenridge Nursing Home. He suffered a stroke eight years ago and had been in the home since that time. The Rev. D.H. Anderson, pastor of the Rose Avenue Baptist Church, officiated. Burial was in Veale Cemetery (sic) under the direction of Melton Funeral Home. Born April 12, 1892 in Young County, he moved to Crystal Falls in Stephens County as a child and to Breckenridge in 1948. He was a member of Rose Avenue Baptist Church.Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Mary A. Jackson of Clyde and Mrs. Fannie Otts of El Dorado, Okla.; several nieces and nephews.”

Source:  Breckenridge American, Tuesday, November 12, 1968, page 1

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