SHAW – Funeral services for Nathaniel Ware Jr., 50, of Victorville, Calif., and formerly of Shaw will be Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, Shaw. He died Aug. 20, 2004, in Victorville. Burial will be in Pilgrim Rest Cemetery, Shaw, under the direction of T.L. Redmon Funeral Home, Cleveland.

Survivors include one son, Levell Champ of Green Bay, Wis.; his mother, Rebecca Curry Ware of Chicago, Ill.; his father, Nathaniel Ware of Shaw; three sisters, Ruthie Anderson and Rosie Roach, both of Shaw, and Justine Ware of Chicago, Ill.; four brothers, Willie Ware of Los Angeles, Calif., James Ware and Tommy Ware, both of Chicago, Ill., and Solomon Ware of Dallas, Texas; and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.

The Rev. Herron Wilson will officiate.