“Rayburn Andrew Ware, 30, of Route 1, Box 287 A, West, died at 3:07 a.m. Wednesday in a local hospital.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, at Kotch Funeral Chapel in Bellmead, Rev. B. W. Goree Jr., assisted by Aubrey Beaird, burial in Gerald Cemetery in Leroy [should be Gerald].

Active pallbearers: Gerald Shanks, Bobby M. Bell, James Smith, Don Smith, Jessie Shedd, Charles Coward.

The family will be at 200 Bermuda.

Survivors include his wife, Glynda Ware; one daughter, Rebecca Ann Ware; his father, Anver Ware of Elm Mott; his mother, Oleta (Hooten) Ware, 200 North Bermuda; three sisters, Mrs. Dale Shedd of Round Rock, Miss C. Ware of Round Rock, Miss Martha Ware of 200 North Bermuda; three brothers, Doyle L. Ware, Rt. 9, Waco, Lewis Ware, 121 South Lakeview Drive, Jerry Ware of North Bermuda Street.

Kotch Funeral Home, Bellmead, Texas.

According to his death certificate he was a machine operator for the railroad. He died at Hillcrest Hospital in Waco, Texas of widespread cancer.”

Source:  Waco Times Herald, April 19, 1973
[Obit courtesy of Sharon McNary, overseer of the Gerald Cemetery – Slick (#47388071)]

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