Loura Ware

Loura B. Ware, 72, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

She was born Oct. 25, 1935, at Houston, Miss., daughter of Henry and Nicey Beane Perkins. She and Reece Ware were married Aug. 25, 1951.

Ware was a member of the House of Prayer World Wide Ministries in Cape Girardeau, where she was a missionary, a member of the Mother's Board and Sunday school superintendent.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, Lee Edward Ware of Flowermound, Texas, and Eric Ware of Cape Girardeau; four daughters, Shelly Moore, JoAnn McCauley and Brenda Lewis, all of Cape Girardeau, and LaKaren Porter of Flowermound; two sisters, Maybeline Coleman and Margaret Barro, both of Milwaukee; 13 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from 12 p.m. Saturday until time of service at Rhema Word Breakthrough International Ministries.

The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Rhema Word, with the Rev. Stafford Moore officiating. Burial will be in New Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.

Williams Funeral Home of Charleston, Mo., is in charge of the arrangements.