“Joshua ‘Mickey’ Ware, 60, of Chicago, formerly of Memphis, sheriff for Cook County Law Enforcement, died Wednesday at St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago. Services will be at 7 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church Mount Olive with burial at 11 a.m. Tuesday in West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. N.H. Owens & Son Funeral Home has charge. He leaves a daughter, Carmela Ware; a son, Jeffery Ware, and his mother, Virgil Branch, all of Chicago, and six grandchildren.

Source:  The Commercial Appeal 1/30/2005

Carole McCaig  Record added: Sep 03, 2010