The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 25, 2002

Lt. Col. Jesse Ray Ward died on Wednesday August 21, at the age of 86...Kate, wife of 51 years...born January 23, 1916 in Gotebo, Oklahoma...fourth of 11 children...third son of a third son...WWII, served in the Pacific...1951 married, Kate Elizabeth...retiring 1960...daughters Raye Elizabeth Ward and Suzanne Maltin of Austin, Texas, and Barbar Flescher of Reno, Nevada, brothers Donald Ward of Edmond, Glenn P. Ward of Oklahoma City, and Hershel of Green Valley, Arizona. He was preceded in death by his son, William Stanley Ward. Services will be at Cook Walden Furneral Home's Davis Chapel...Austin, Texas, Saturday, August 24...

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