Joyce Marie Ware

Funeral services for Joyce Marie Ware, 76, of Gainesville, are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Friday, October 18, 2013 at the Geo. J. Carroll & Son Chapel with Pat Sharp and Jay Culpepper officiating. Interment will follow at Fairview Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Thursday, October 17 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Ware was born October 1, 1937 in Fulbright, TX to Lonnie and Clara Jewett. She passed away October 15, 2013 comfortably at her home in Gainesville.

Mrs. Ware attended Callisburg schools when she was younger and was a long-time member of Commerce Street Church of Christ. Mrs. Ware was employed at various places, including Gainesville State School, Ranger Arms, E.M.C. Plastics, Denton Printing, Braum’s, Beall’s Dept. Store, and Ware’s Welding Supplies.

Survivors include: husband, George P. Ware, Jr., of Gainesville; daughter and son-in-law, Carla and Mickey Underhill, of Denton; son and daughter-in-law, Billy and Debbie Ware, of Mena, AR; son and daughter-in-law, Joe and Tammy Ware, of McAlester, OK; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandchild on the way; sister, Martha Dean Maughan and husband, Bill, of Valley View; sister, Glenda Fuller, of Gainesville; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Joe and Nell Ware, of Callisburg; sister-in-law, Iris Isaacs, of North Carolina; and numerous nieces, nephews, aunts, and uncles.

Mrs. Ware was preceded in death by: daughter, Sharon Kay Ware-Harrison; son-in-law, Bill Harrison; son-in-law, Larry Monden; parents, Lonnie and Clara Jewett; great-granddaughter, Megan Michele Monden; and brother-in-law, Dennis Fuller.

Her sons and grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Memorials may be made to the American Heart Assoc. or the American Diabetes Assoc.