FORREST CITY – Rosie Lee Ware, 54, motel housekeeper, died of respiratory failure Tuesday in Forrest City. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Risen Sun Missionary Baptist Church with burial in Stanley Grove Cemetery in Pine Tree. Wilson Funeral Home in Osceola has charge. She was a Baptist. She leaves a daughter, Vanessa Draper of Kansas City, Mo.; seven sons, William Ware, Samuel Ware, Stanley Ware, Antonio Ware, Ross Ware and Elijah Ware, all of Forrest City, and Wayne Ware of Arkadelphia; a sister, Sandra Blackwell of Pine Bluff; two brothers, Robert Harris of Houston, Texas, and Paul Harris of Pine Bluff, and 16 grandchildren.
Source: Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) — Friday, November 7, 1997