"PITKIN - Services for Kinnie Ware will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Gospel Lighthouse Pentecostal Church with the Rev. James Vandergriff officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery under direction of White Oaks, Oakdale. Ware, 60, of Pitkin died Thursday, July 1, 1999, in his residence. He was a native of Oakdale and a logger for 45 years for Timber Industry Logging. He was a member of Gospel Lighthouse Pentecostal Church. Survivors include his wife, Sharon Ware of Pitkin; five sons, Rodney Ware, James Ware, Hubert Ware, Andrew Ware and Justin Ware, all of Pitkin; three daughters, Loretta Strother of Oakdale, BelindacSecrest of Jasonville, Ind., and Michelle Coker of Oakdale; one stepson, Billy Joe Strother of Pitkin; four sisters, Ella Mae Odom and Verna Mae O'neal of Oakdale and Essie Mae Seago and Lola Mae Levins, both of Baytown, Texas; four brothers, Julius Ware of Oakdale, Andrew Ware of Nacogdoches, Texas, Calvin Ware and Clyde Ware, both of Pine Prairie; and 19 grandchildren. Friends may call from 8 a.m. today until time of services Saturday in the church." Source: Vernon Parish Obituaries from Alexandria Town Talk - 1999