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W. C. WARE WAS RESIDENT
HERE SINCE 1889

W. C. Ware, 75, resident of this community since 1889, passed away in DeLay hospital, Sulphur, last Thursday, after a brief illness.

Services were held at First Baptist Church at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Rev. J. M. House officiating. Interment was in Green Hill cemetery with Bahner funeral home in charge.

Serving as pallbearers were Fred Ayers, Claude Willis, Raymond Tigert, Ed Pruitt, A. L. Hooker and Dick Hunt. Honorary: A. G. Dunn, Joe Martin, O. C. Francis, W. R. Tucker and Price Hunt.

Welcome C. Ware was born in Athens, Texas, June 9, 1880. Leaving Texas at the age of nine years, he moved to Indian Territory, to what is now Davis, and continued to live here the remainder of his life. He was employed in state highway work for 25 years, retiring in January, last year. Prior to that time he engaged in farming. On April 8, 1903, in Davis, he married Miss Minerva Ellis from which union five children were born, one son dying in infancy.

Survivors include his wife, Minerva, of the home; two sons, P. C. Ware, Wichita, Kan., and O. M. Ware, Oklahoma City; two daughters, Mrs. Harry B. Drennan, Houston, Texas, and Mrs. Floyd Young, Wynnewood, Okla.; a brother, P. E. Ware, Davis, Okla.; two sisters, Mrs. H. W. Fielding, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. J. E. Patterson, Lindsay, Okla.; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mr. Ware was a member of the Baptist church and Woodmen of the World. He will be greatly missed by his legion of friends.

Out of town friends and relatives attending the funeral of W. C. Ware last Saturday were:

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Campbell of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Strickland of Gainesville, Mrs. U. S. Stafford of Tulsa, Mrs. H. M. Offield of Tulsa, Kenneth Bushyhead of Tulsa, Mrs. R. E. Wallace of Tulsa, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Ware of Oklahoma City, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Ware of Oklahoma City, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Ware of Oklahoma City, Mrs. Joe Meigs of Okla. City, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Fielding of Okla. City, Mrs. Cleo Lamb of Okla. City, Mrs. Alma Brown of Okla. City, Mrs. Ruth Sutton of Stroud, Okla., Mr. R. R. Gibson of Allen, Okla., Mr. Perry Ware of Sulphur, Mrs. Pete Perkins of Oklahoma City, Mr. and Mrs. Don Graham of Okla. City, Mrs. Ernie Tipton of Sulphur, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Young of Sulphur, Mr. Jack Young of Stillwater, Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Litchfield and Rosemary of Wynnewood, Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Litchfield of Wynnewood, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brewer of Wynnewood, Mrs. O. E. Roady of Wynnewood, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Brewer of Wynnewood, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Auston of Wynnewood, Mrs. John Murray of Wynnewood, Mrs. J. A. Murray of Wynnewood, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Scott of Wynnewood, Mrs. Garvin Chandler of Wynnewood, Mr. Dick Deel of Oklahoma City, Mrs. E. Patterson of Lindsay, Mrs. Buck Clark of Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. Cook of Noble, and Mr. Buck Patterson of Anadarko, Okla.

Burial:
Green Hill Cemetery
Davis
Murray County
Oklahoma, USA
Plot: Old South, 5S, Row 13

Source:  The Davis News on April 19, 1956

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