Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary: DORA M. WARE Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joann Brazee Osage County News Service (OCNS) http://ocns.freeyellow.com/ Email: ocns@hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DORA M. WARE Dora was born September 5, 1905, in Bellmont, Oklahoma, the daughter of Robert E. Lee Smith and Mary Maude (Disch) Smith and February 6, 1922 in Pawhuska, married David Clark Ware who preceded her in death March 27, 1980. Dora served as Treasurer for the First Christian Church in Wynona for over thirty years and was the Voter Registrar at Wooster Mound for many years. Survivors include: three sons, Dennis Ware and wife, Kathy, and Benny Ware and wife, Linda, of Wynona, and Gene Ware of Hominy; two daughters, Doris Ann Ware of Nowata, Oklahoma, and Lillian Myers and husband, Ralph of Wynona; one sister, Ella Berg of Colony, Texas; nineteen grandchildren, thirty-six great grandchildren, eleven great-great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. In addition to her parents and husband, Dora was preceded in death by three children: Melvin Ware, Ella Louise Ware and Floyd Ware. Services were held Saturday, January 27, in the Johnson Funeral Home Chapel with interment in Pawhuska City Cemetery under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home.