LEON BRUCE WARE, 35, of 1578 McMillian, former employee of St. Louis Catholic Church, died of pneumonia Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Prosperity Missionary Baptist Church, where he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. B. T. Auston & Son Funeral Home has charge. Mr. Ware leaves a son, Leon Ware Jr. of Memphis; his mother, Bertha Ware of Arlington; three sisters, Patricia Ware, Norma Ware and Mattie Ware, all of Memphis; five brothers, Robert Ware of Arlington, and James Johnson, Edward Ware, Terry Ware and Alphonzo Ware, all of Memphis, and two grandmothers, Ruthie Johnson of Bartlett and Ethel Ware Goodman of Stanton, Tenn.
Source: Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) — Thursday, September 7, 1995