MARGARET WARE

FORT WORTH -- Margaret Agnes "Dolly" Guleke Ware, Mrs. Morton Gause Ware, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and successful business woman, died peacefully in San Antonio, Saturday evening, Sept. 22, 2012, a month short of her 94th year. Service: 1 p.m. Thursday in the chapel at Robertson Mueller Harper. Grandolly will be laid to rest by her "Ten Little Angels," all of her grandchildren, in Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: She will lie in state on Wednesday where family and friends will be received from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Great Room at the funeral home. A memorial service celebrating Dolly's life will be held in San Antonio on Saturday, Oct. 6. Memorials: Consideration of contributions to "your favorite cause," in Dolly's memory, is suggested. Born Oct. 24, 1918, in Amarillo, Dolly was part of a large pioneer family in the Panhandle. Her parents were James Oscar Guleke, a lawyer and dynamic civic leader, and Agnes Seewald Guleke, oldest daughter of pioneer jeweler P.H. Seewald and Alice Adams Seewald, her "Mama Seewald." Her paternal grandparents, Edward Guleke, originally of New York, and Mollie Kiersey Guleke were Panhandle ranchers. Dolly had many doting aunts and uncles who delighted in her quick wit and lovely singing voice. Intelligent and outspoken, she was the only girl on the debate team at Amarillo High School. With early training in voice, she starred in school operettas and sang in recitals. After graduating from high school, she attended Stephens College in Missouri and Randolph-Macon in Virginia, graduating with a B.A. in English from West Texas State in Canyon. Upon graduation, she married Morton Gause Ware of Fort Worth on June 17, 1939. After a long honeymoon, driving to Mexico City, they settled in Fort Worth where his family had several businesses, including Gause-Ware Funeral Homes and Family Security Insurance Company. Dolly held leadership roles in the Woman's Club of Fort Worth, Fort Worth Children's Hospital, Jewel Charity Ball, Rotaryanns, the Salvation Army and many others. In addition, she was popular public speaker, a "Date with Dolly" was much in demand by many organizations. She continued to sing as a soloist, especially at weddings, funerals and special programs. With her pitch-perfect high soprano voice, she could have been an opera singer. She was a student of Huna and the curator of the Max Freedom Long Library. Dolly was a voracious reader who studied many subjects including religion, the Dead Sea Scrolls, nutrition, ESP, cancer recovery, history and many current events. Her interests also included being a "lady farmer," managing her own irrigated wheat and maize farm and ranch in the Panhandle of Texas. Dolly was preceded in death by her parents; husband; sons, George Gause Ware and Robert Guleke Ware; sons-in-law, Robert Crozier Howe and John Henry Wendell Jr.; and brother, James Seewald Guleke. Survivors: In addition to her daughter, Mary Jane Ware Howe, son, James Morton "Jim" Ware and daughter, Margaret Ann "Bebe" Ware Wendell, Mrs. Ware is survived by her "daughters-in-love," Kathy Bell Ware and Deborah Andrews Ware Hartman; grandchildren, Missy Ware Krippel and Jeff, Andrea Ware Cisneros and Luis, John Morton Ware II, Allison Ware Beck and Jay, Ware Victor Wendell and Robyn, Alicia Ware Cheatham and Rob, Margaret Kathryn Wendell, Ashley Ware Herron and Michael, Elizabeth Kathleen Wendell, and Morton Edward Wendell and Jonathan Hubble; 14 great-grandchildren; sister, Kathryn Jane Guleke Reser and husband, Ralph; other family members; and many friends. Robertson Mueller Harper Funerals & Cremations 1500 Eighth Ave., 817-924-4233 To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of MARGARET WARE please visit our Sympathy Store.