“Thomas P. Ware Jr., 40, a musician with Russ Gary’s Orchestra which played Saturday night for a dance at the Harlingen Country Club, died Monday afternoon at the Valley Baptist hospital, where he was taken Sunday after he suddenly had become ill.

Mr. Ware is survived by his mother, Mrs. Thomas P. Ware, of Shreveport, La.

The Kreidler-Ashcraft Funeral Home will send the remains tonight to Shreveport for interment.

Source:  The Brownsville (TX) Herald, December 7, 1954.

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