William L. Ware, a retired Navy captain, died Tuesday at the New Orleans Home and Rehabilitation Center. He was 89. Mr. Ware was born in Norfolk, Va., and lived in New Orleans for 27 years. He attended Sewanee Military Academy and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. He received a masters degree from Middlebury College in New Hampshire. He taught in the New Orleans public schools. He sang in the Mardi Gras Chorus Barber Shop Quartet, The New Orleans Community Choir and the Trinity Church Choir. He was a member of the Carrollton Rotary Club of New Orleans, a charter member of the New Orleans Committee to Open Pools, and a volunteer at the City Hall Answer Desk. He was also a member of the Golden Circle Army and Navy Club, Washington D.C., a life honorary member of the U.S. Naval Institute of Retired Officers Association and the American Legion. He was a veteran of World Wars I and II and Pearl Harbor. He was port director immediately after the Japanese attack. He commanded the Mount Shasta, an ammunition ship, during the war in the Pacific. Mr. Ware was part of the naval delegation sent to the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to represent the United States. He also commanded the USS Mount McKinley at the Pacific Atomic Proving Grounds in 1947. Survivors include his wife, Cynthia Sanborn Ware; three daughters, Cynthia Putnam, Meredith Ramsay and Tamara Gamble; eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A memorial service will be held today at 1 p.m. at Bultman Funeral Home Chapel, 3338 St. Charles Ave. Burial will be in University Cemetery in Sewanee, Tenn.

Source:  Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA) — Friday, January 24, 1992