Kenneth Evans Ware

He attended Southern Methodist University and graduated from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1955. He did his internship at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas.

From 1955 to 1957 he was employed as a psychologist at the Southwestern Polio Center in Jeff Davis Hospital in Houston, Texas.

Dr. Ware was one of the founding fathers of the The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR) and was on the staff of the Department of Rehabilitation at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. From 1957 to 1983, he was employed as a Clinical Psychologist at TIRR. During those years, he provided instruction and supervised training in the psychological aspects of physical disability for medical students from the Baylor College of Medicine and for psychology students at the University of Houston.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Montie Ellen Long and Dewitt Franklin Ware; his wife of 55 years, Grace Evelyn Keller Ware; a son, Philip K. Ware; and his brothers, Wayne D. Ware and Dr. James H. Ware. Survivors include a son, Wayne K. Ware and his wife, Minna; daughter-in-love, Lane M. Arnold, the mother of his grandchildren and her husband, Dr. Robert Arnold; his grandchildren, Jeremy Ware and his wife, Christina, Nathan Ware, and Susannah Ware; and several nieces.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from ten until eleven o’clock in the morning on Thursday, the 2nd of June, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

The funeral service is to be conducted at eleven o’clock in the morning on Thursday, the 2nd of June, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons. Immediately following, the family is to gather for a private interment service at Memorial Oaks Cemetery in Houston.

Following the services, all are invited to join the family for a reception at half-past one o’clock in the afternoon at The Forum, 777 North Post Oak Road in Houston.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family respectfully requests memorial contributions in the memory of Dr. Ware be directed to the charity of one’s choice.