“Minnie Grimsley Ware, 90, of Lee’s Summit, MO, a former county elementary school teacher, died Thursday, May 13, 2010 in Lee’s Summit, Mo. where she has made her home for the past 49 years.
Born April 9, 1920 in the community known as Grimsleyville,Va Buchanan County in the 1930s where her father served as postmaster and owned a general store, she was one of 11 children of the late James Lowry and Almeda Thomas Grimsley. Following her graduation from Richlands High School where she excelled in Latin and Algebra, she assisted her father in his business before going to Elizabethton, Tenn. for secretarial courses. She returned to Buchanan County in the early years of World War II to teach school on Clifton Fork, later moving to Portsmouth, Va. to work in the communications department at the Naval Shipyard. There she met her husband, Chief Petty Officer Joseph M. Ware, a career Navy man and a Pearl Harbor survivor, who preceded her in death in 1993. Throughout her life, she retained her love for Southwest Virginia, maintaining contact with many of her relatives and childhood friends, especially high school classmates and would often relate memories of her teaching days at Clifton Fork.
She is survived by three children, Joseph Edward “Joe” Ware, James McClullen “Jim” Ware and Mary Patricia Turner, all of Lee’s Summit, Mo.; two brothers, Edward Grimsley of Richmond, Va. and Charles Grimsley of Norfolk, Va.; eight grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.
A funeral service was conducted in Lee’s Summit, Mo. on Tuesday, May 18 by Aldersgate United Methodist Church ministers. Burial will be in the Lee’ Summit Cemetery.”

Source:  FindAGrave

Delcia Clifton Alderson     Record added: Jun 01, 2010