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Larry D. Ware

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Larry D. Ware

Birth
Casey County, Kentucky, USA
Death
29 Nov 2020 (aged 69)
Pulaski County, Kentucky, USA
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Larry D. Ware, age 69, of the Walltown Community, Kentucky, passed away November 29, 2020 at home with his family by his side.

Born July 18, 1951 in Liberty, Kentucky, to the late JC and Edna Caudill Ware.

Larry was a member of the Mt. Olive Christian Church and was baptized on January 16, 2010.

Larry was a veteran of the US Air Force.

He was a master electrician for over 40 years and a farmer. His greatest passion was mules and training gaited mules. From this he gained friends from all over the United States.

Larry is survived by his wife of 35 years, Theressa Gail Ware. Also surviving are three daughters, Joy and Brent Allen of Wrightsville, Georgia, Sarah and Billy Duncan of Walltown, and Lore and Josh Patterson of Campbellsville, Kentucky. Grandchildren; Calvin and Kandi Allen of Ringgold, Georgia, Taylor Allen, and Wesley Allen of Statesboro, Georgia, Gracelyn Beeler and Kaylee Duncan of Walltown. Great Grandchildren; JC and Caden Allen of Ringgold. He was expecting another grandchild in Summer 2021. Additional survivors are his sister in law, Betty Ware and nephew, Brent and Lisa Ware.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Gary Ware.

Due to current COVID-19 regulations, a Private Visitation and Funeral Service will be held Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at Barnett, Demrow & Friend Funeral Home.

Bro. Greg Powell will officiate the service. The service will be live streamed on Barnett, Demrow & Friend Funeral Home’s Facebook page beginning at 12:00PM Wednesday.

Private Burial will be in Salyers Cemetery in Casey County, Kentucky, where he will join his parents and grandparents.

Josh Patterson, Billy Duncan, Brent Allen, Brent Ware, Casey Coppage and Dave Sims will serve as Active Pallbearers.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to current restrictions, masks must be worn by all in attendance for the Private Visitation and the Funeral Service; and social distancing guidelines must be followed.

Barnett, Demrow & Friend Funeral Home, Waynesburg, is entrusted with Larry’s arrangements. Guest Book available at www.friendfuneralhomes.com

The Casey County News
Dec 9, 2020
By Charlie VanLeuven
Community mourns Ware
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm (Updated: December 8, 3:03

An Air Force veteran, a master electrician, a champion mule breeder and trainer, a father and grandfather, a husband, a boss, a friend, and a community leader — Larry Ware was all of these things. He accomplished so much in his life before his untimely death at age 69 on Nov. 29. Yet more important than the things Larry did was how much he meant to the people he lived with.
photo/Submitted Larry Ware’s casket arrives at Salyers Cemetery Dec. 2 after a four-mile ride from his house. Mr. Ware touched many people in the county and in the mule community. A long line of people watched the procession down his street.Buy this photo
photo/Submitted Larry Ware’s casket arrives at Salyers Cemetery Dec. 2 after a four-mile ride from his house. Mr. Ware touched many people in the county and in the mule community. A long line of people watched the procession down his street.
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Larry’s last ride was on the back of a mule wagon, pulled down Ware Road on Dec. 2 to the Salyers Cemetery. The community of Walltown solemnly stood on their porches, while the street was filled with parked vehicles. They got out of the cars as his coffin passed, and silently paid their respects.

His wife, Gail Ware, thinks Larry would have been impressed.

“I know he was smiling. I know he would say, ‘All this just for me?’” she said.

Larry’s friend of 20 years, Johnnie Green, said that he deserved the special recognition.

“He was just a remarkable man, a friend. He was there for any organization that needed help, like a church group, electrical-wise. He never put them off,” he said.

In 2012, Green’s property was destroyed by a tornado in Salyersville. Before Johnnie could really do anything, there was Larry.

“I turned around and lost everything, and Larry pulled up with a camper as said, “You can use it as long as you want,’” he said. “If he thought you needed something, he was always the first person there.”

Green got to know Ware at mule shows. Larry was a well-accomplished mule breeder and trainer. Ware won 25 World Championships with his daughter Lore and granddaughters in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

The mule community was shocked by Ware’s death and came to his funeral from all over the state and neighboring states. Green said that the mule community would never see another Larry Ware.

“Words can’t describe it, because it’s a vacancy that can’t be filled,” he said. “The funeral was very touching. It just showed you what kind of man Larry was.”

Before he began breeding mules in the 1990s, he served in the U.S. Air Force from 1970 to 1973 during the Vietnam War based primarily in Minot, North Dakota. Afterward he began his electrician business, Ware Electric. He became a master electrician, and gave freely of his services to organizations that needed his help.

He helped make the Casey County Apple Festival a success, seeing to their needs and meeting with his friends.

Casey Coppage, who worked with the Apple Festival, found employment working with Larry eight years ago. Coppage was going to lose his job due to a shutdown, and Ware offered him employment. The next Monday, Ware took Coppage under his wings as an apprentice and showed him how to be an electrician.

“He was an excellent boss. More like a Dad working with me than a boss,” Coppage said. “He would take the extra time. He wouldn’t have me do anything he wouldn’t do.”

Coppage said that he is still coming to terms with the loss of his boss and friend.

“It’s still really just hard to process. It doesn’t really seem like he’s gone,” he said.

His wife Gail explained that Larry contracted Covid-19 this fall and recovered. However, the virus formed blood clots in his lungs. Larry knew he was in trouble.

“He knew with that blood clot that if it moved he would die, and he wanted to die at home,” she said.

She and Larry used to ride on mule wagons. His last wish was to load his coffin in the back of a mule wagon for a final ride, four miles down Ware Road to the Salyers Cemetery.

Rufus Reese of Reese Brothers Mule Co of Gallatin, Tennessee, and Wendell Allen of Hang m High Horse Camp, of London, Kentucky, made his final wishes a reality.

All who were in attendance were touched by this final ride.

“It was unbelievable, just seeing all his mule friends all up and down the road paying their respects,” said Coppage.

The community of Walltown also stood out on their porches to say goodbye.

“You wouldn’t believe all the people that were standing out there. It was just like a patriotic parade,” said Gail. “The whole road from my house to where it meets 837 was filled. It was unreal.”

Due to the pandemic, only 25 people got to watch Larry be lowered into the ground at Salyers Cemetery, but the county and mule breeders and trainers worldwide continue to mourn him.
Larry D. Ware, age 69, of the Walltown Community, Kentucky, passed away November 29, 2020 at home with his family by his side.

Born July 18, 1951 in Liberty, Kentucky, to the late JC and Edna Caudill Ware.

Larry was a member of the Mt. Olive Christian Church and was baptized on January 16, 2010.

Larry was a veteran of the US Air Force.

He was a master electrician for over 40 years and a farmer. His greatest passion was mules and training gaited mules. From this he gained friends from all over the United States.

Larry is survived by his wife of 35 years, Theressa Gail Ware. Also surviving are three daughters, Joy and Brent Allen of Wrightsville, Georgia, Sarah and Billy Duncan of Walltown, and Lore and Josh Patterson of Campbellsville, Kentucky. Grandchildren; Calvin and Kandi Allen of Ringgold, Georgia, Taylor Allen, and Wesley Allen of Statesboro, Georgia, Gracelyn Beeler and Kaylee Duncan of Walltown. Great Grandchildren; JC and Caden Allen of Ringgold. He was expecting another grandchild in Summer 2021. Additional survivors are his sister in law, Betty Ware and nephew, Brent and Lisa Ware.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Gary Ware.

Due to current COVID-19 regulations, a Private Visitation and Funeral Service will be held Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at Barnett, Demrow & Friend Funeral Home.

Bro. Greg Powell will officiate the service. The service will be live streamed on Barnett, Demrow & Friend Funeral Home’s Facebook page beginning at 12:00PM Wednesday.

Private Burial will be in Salyers Cemetery in Casey County, Kentucky, where he will join his parents and grandparents.

Josh Patterson, Billy Duncan, Brent Allen, Brent Ware, Casey Coppage and Dave Sims will serve as Active Pallbearers.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to current restrictions, masks must be worn by all in attendance for the Private Visitation and the Funeral Service; and social distancing guidelines must be followed.

Barnett, Demrow & Friend Funeral Home, Waynesburg, is entrusted with Larry’s arrangements. Guest Book available at www.friendfuneralhomes.com

The Casey County News
Dec 9, 2020
By Charlie VanLeuven
Community mourns Ware
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm (Updated: December 8, 3:03

An Air Force veteran, a master electrician, a champion mule breeder and trainer, a father and grandfather, a husband, a boss, a friend, and a community leader — Larry Ware was all of these things. He accomplished so much in his life before his untimely death at age 69 on Nov. 29. Yet more important than the things Larry did was how much he meant to the people he lived with.
photo/Submitted Larry Ware’s casket arrives at Salyers Cemetery Dec. 2 after a four-mile ride from his house. Mr. Ware touched many people in the county and in the mule community. A long line of people watched the procession down his street.Buy this photo
photo/Submitted Larry Ware’s casket arrives at Salyers Cemetery Dec. 2 after a four-mile ride from his house. Mr. Ware touched many people in the county and in the mule community. A long line of people watched the procession down his street.
Buy this photo

Larry’s last ride was on the back of a mule wagon, pulled down Ware Road on Dec. 2 to the Salyers Cemetery. The community of Walltown solemnly stood on their porches, while the street was filled with parked vehicles. They got out of the cars as his coffin passed, and silently paid their respects.

His wife, Gail Ware, thinks Larry would have been impressed.

“I know he was smiling. I know he would say, ‘All this just for me?’” she said.

Larry’s friend of 20 years, Johnnie Green, said that he deserved the special recognition.

“He was just a remarkable man, a friend. He was there for any organization that needed help, like a church group, electrical-wise. He never put them off,” he said.

In 2012, Green’s property was destroyed by a tornado in Salyersville. Before Johnnie could really do anything, there was Larry.

“I turned around and lost everything, and Larry pulled up with a camper as said, “You can use it as long as you want,’” he said. “If he thought you needed something, he was always the first person there.”

Green got to know Ware at mule shows. Larry was a well-accomplished mule breeder and trainer. Ware won 25 World Championships with his daughter Lore and granddaughters in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

The mule community was shocked by Ware’s death and came to his funeral from all over the state and neighboring states. Green said that the mule community would never see another Larry Ware.

“Words can’t describe it, because it’s a vacancy that can’t be filled,” he said. “The funeral was very touching. It just showed you what kind of man Larry was.”

Before he began breeding mules in the 1990s, he served in the U.S. Air Force from 1970 to 1973 during the Vietnam War based primarily in Minot, North Dakota. Afterward he began his electrician business, Ware Electric. He became a master electrician, and gave freely of his services to organizations that needed his help.

He helped make the Casey County Apple Festival a success, seeing to their needs and meeting with his friends.

Casey Coppage, who worked with the Apple Festival, found employment working with Larry eight years ago. Coppage was going to lose his job due to a shutdown, and Ware offered him employment. The next Monday, Ware took Coppage under his wings as an apprentice and showed him how to be an electrician.

“He was an excellent boss. More like a Dad working with me than a boss,” Coppage said. “He would take the extra time. He wouldn’t have me do anything he wouldn’t do.”

Coppage said that he is still coming to terms with the loss of his boss and friend.

“It’s still really just hard to process. It doesn’t really seem like he’s gone,” he said.

His wife Gail explained that Larry contracted Covid-19 this fall and recovered. However, the virus formed blood clots in his lungs. Larry knew he was in trouble.

“He knew with that blood clot that if it moved he would die, and he wanted to die at home,” she said.

She and Larry used to ride on mule wagons. His last wish was to load his coffin in the back of a mule wagon for a final ride, four miles down Ware Road to the Salyers Cemetery.

Rufus Reese of Reese Brothers Mule Co of Gallatin, Tennessee, and Wendell Allen of Hang m High Horse Camp, of London, Kentucky, made his final wishes a reality.

All who were in attendance were touched by this final ride.

“It was unbelievable, just seeing all his mule friends all up and down the road paying their respects,” said Coppage.

The community of Walltown also stood out on their porches to say goodbye.

“You wouldn’t believe all the people that were standing out there. It was just like a patriotic parade,” said Gail. “The whole road from my house to where it meets 837 was filled. It was unreal.”

Due to the pandemic, only 25 people got to watch Larry be lowered into the ground at Salyers Cemetery, but the county and mule breeders and trainers worldwide continue to mourn him.


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