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    Mr. Lanny Ware

    March 1, 1955 - October 6, 2020

    Funeral services for Mr. Lanny Ware, 65, of Tenaha, Texas will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, October 12, 2020 in the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Allen Tilley officiating. Burial will follow in the Old Center Cemetery. Visitation will be 1-2:00 p.m. Monday prior to the service. Mr. Lanny Ray Ware was born March 1, 1955 in Carthage, Texas. He passed this life October 6, 2020 at his Tenaha home. Lanny was born to the marriage of James Calvin and Billy Ruth Graves Ware. He was raised in Tenaha and schooled in Carthage, Texas graduating with the Bulldog class of 1972. He married Sherry Lynn Gordon February 4, 1980 and they celebrated 40 years of marriage and one daughter. Mr. Ware worked as a pipeline inspector and member of the Pipeliners Union #798. He was a true outdoorsman, fishing, making traps, hunting wild hogs and deer. . He is preceded in death by his parents; grandparents who helped raise him, Ovie and Ferran Graves, brothers, Larry Ware, Ronald Dwayne Ballard; and mother-in-law, Sue Gordon. Mr. Ware is survived by his loving wife, Sherry Ware of Tenaha; daughter, Ashley Lynn Alexander of Tenaha; granddaughter, Laney Nichole Alexander; father-in-law, James E. Gordon of Tenaha; brother-in-law, Toby Lee Gordon of Tenaha; sister-in-law, Sandra Ballard of Tenaha; special sisters, Leigh Ann Hernsberger, Donna Taylor and Debbie Jo Sheffield; special friends: Goldman Whitman of Tenaha and Jimmy Scheffield of Old Center; numerous other relatives and a host of friends. Serving as pallbearers will be, Roland Cross, Mike Perry, Charles Lynch, Gene Anderson, Tommy Rinkle, Roy Cheatwood. Honorary pallbearers will be; Toby Gordon, Goldman Whitman, and Jimmy Sheffield. An online guestbook can be signed at www.hawthornfuneralhome.com

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    Funeral services for Mr. Lanny Ware, 65, of Tenaha, Texas will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, October 12, 2020 in the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Allen Tilley officiating. Burial will follow in the Old Center Cemetery. Visitation will be 1-2:00... View Obituary & Service Information

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