LURA C. WARE
FEB. 11, 1917
JUNE 3, 2006
Lura Elizabeth Chesteen was the daughter of Charlie William and Mary Anna (Garrett) Chesteen. She graduated at the Holmes Junior College (Goodman, Miss.), attended the Mississippi State College for Women (Columbus), and graduated at the Delta State Teachers' College (Cleveland, Miss.). She was a teacher for thirteen years, in Mississippi and Arkansas. From 1943 to 1945, during World War II, she was an ordnance inspector at the Gulf Ordnance Plant, Prairie (near Aberdeen), Mississippi, and later worked as a laboratory technician at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. Then, for many years she was employed as an Extension Home Economist by the Mississippi Co-op. Extension Service in Chickasaw County. On Dec. 23, 1944, she married Edgar Lee Sanders (1897-1946) and had one daughter. On Sept. 14, 1974, Lura married Dewitt S. Ware and they enjoyed almost 32 years together until her death. She was a member of the Houston (Miss.) First Baptist Church. She died at the Trace Regional Hospital in Houston (Miss.), and services were held at the Houston Funeral Home on June 5, 2006, with the Reverend Drew Blanton and the Reverend Dan Robertson officiating. Burial was in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Houston. She was survived by her husband, Dewitt Ware of Houston, her daughter Linda, and nineteen nieces and nephews.
Sources include the NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI DAILY JOURNAL, June 4, 2006 (courtesy of Barbara Wiley Hamby) and the HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI (1993), p. 286.
FEB. 11, 1917
JUNE 3, 2006
Lura Elizabeth Chesteen was the daughter of Charlie William and Mary Anna (Garrett) Chesteen. She graduated at the Holmes Junior College (Goodman, Miss.), attended the Mississippi State College for Women (Columbus), and graduated at the Delta State Teachers' College (Cleveland, Miss.). She was a teacher for thirteen years, in Mississippi and Arkansas. From 1943 to 1945, during World War II, she was an ordnance inspector at the Gulf Ordnance Plant, Prairie (near Aberdeen), Mississippi, and later worked as a laboratory technician at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. Then, for many years she was employed as an Extension Home Economist by the Mississippi Co-op. Extension Service in Chickasaw County. On Dec. 23, 1944, she married Edgar Lee Sanders (1897-1946) and had one daughter. On Sept. 14, 1974, Lura married Dewitt S. Ware and they enjoyed almost 32 years together until her death. She was a member of the Houston (Miss.) First Baptist Church. She died at the Trace Regional Hospital in Houston (Miss.), and services were held at the Houston Funeral Home on June 5, 2006, with the Reverend Drew Blanton and the Reverend Dan Robertson officiating. Burial was in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Houston. She was survived by her husband, Dewitt Ware of Houston, her daughter Linda, and nineteen nieces and nephews.
Sources include the NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI DAILY JOURNAL, June 4, 2006 (courtesy of Barbara Wiley Hamby) and the HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI (1993), p. 286.
LURA C. WARE
FEB. 11, 1917
JUNE 3, 2006
Lura Elizabeth Chesteen was the daughter of Charlie William and Mary Anna (Garrett) Chesteen. She graduated at the Holmes Junior College (Goodman, Miss.), attended the Mississippi State College for Women (Columbus), and graduated at the Delta State Teachers' College (Cleveland, Miss.). She was a teacher for thirteen years, in Mississippi and Arkansas. From 1943 to 1945, during World War II, she was an ordnance inspector at the Gulf Ordnance Plant, Prairie (near Aberdeen), Mississippi, and later worked as a laboratory technician at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. Then, for many years she was employed as an Extension Home Economist by the Mississippi Co-op. Extension Service in Chickasaw County. On Dec. 23, 1944, she married Edgar Lee Sanders (1897-1946) and had one daughter. On Sept. 14, 1974, Lura married Dewitt S. Ware and they enjoyed almost 32 years together until her death. She was a member of the Houston (Miss.) First Baptist Church. She died at the Trace Regional Hospital in Houston (Miss.), and services were held at the Houston Funeral Home on June 5, 2006, with the Reverend Drew Blanton and the Reverend Dan Robertson officiating. Burial was in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Houston. She was survived by her husband, Dewitt Ware of Houston, her daughter Linda, and nineteen nieces and nephews.
Sources include the NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI DAILY JOURNAL, June 4, 2006 (courtesy of Barbara Wiley Hamby) and the HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI (1993), p. 286.
FEB. 11, 1917
JUNE 3, 2006
Lura Elizabeth Chesteen was the daughter of Charlie William and Mary Anna (Garrett) Chesteen. She graduated at the Holmes Junior College (Goodman, Miss.), attended the Mississippi State College for Women (Columbus), and graduated at the Delta State Teachers' College (Cleveland, Miss.). She was a teacher for thirteen years, in Mississippi and Arkansas. From 1943 to 1945, during World War II, she was an ordnance inspector at the Gulf Ordnance Plant, Prairie (near Aberdeen), Mississippi, and later worked as a laboratory technician at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. Then, for many years she was employed as an Extension Home Economist by the Mississippi Co-op. Extension Service in Chickasaw County. On Dec. 23, 1944, she married Edgar Lee Sanders (1897-1946) and had one daughter. On Sept. 14, 1974, Lura married Dewitt S. Ware and they enjoyed almost 32 years together until her death. She was a member of the Houston (Miss.) First Baptist Church. She died at the Trace Regional Hospital in Houston (Miss.), and services were held at the Houston Funeral Home on June 5, 2006, with the Reverend Drew Blanton and the Reverend Dan Robertson officiating. Burial was in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Houston. She was survived by her husband, Dewitt Ware of Houston, her daughter Linda, and nineteen nieces and nephews.
Sources include the NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI DAILY JOURNAL, June 4, 2006 (courtesy of Barbara Wiley Hamby) and the HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI (1993), p. 286.
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