JESSE LEE WARE JR., 68, of 1472 Stevenson, retired employee of Burlington Northern Railroad, died of heart failure Tuesday at Methodist Hospital. Services will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church with burial in West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. E. H. Ford Mortuary Services has charge. Mr. Ware, the husband of Vivian M. Ware, also leaves a daughter, Carolyn Mason; a son, Jesse Lee Ware III; a brother, Marshall Ware, all of Memphis, five grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Source:  Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) – Wednesday, February 3, 1999