Lorena Ward

Article taken from The Portsmouth Daily Times, Monday, December 29, 2003

Lorena Mowery Ward, 88, formely of Minford, died Friday evening, Dec, 26, 2003, at Crystal Care Center in Portsmouth.

A native of Fullerton, Ky., she was born Oct. 27, 1915, to the late Kellen Gray and Sadie Smith Gray. She was a former clerk at S.S. Kresge Company.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Wince "Poke" Mowery, her second husband Loren C. Ward; an infant daughter; a son, Ronald Mowery; a sister, Hazel Louise Jordan; and a brother, Frank Gray.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Betty Mowery of Ore City, Texas; two brothers and their wives, Wade and Juanita Gray of Clarktown, and Henry "Bud" and Mary Gray of Riggarish Addition; two granddaughters; One grandson; several great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Services will be held ce of the family. There is to be no vistation. Interment will be in Sun Set Memorial Gardens.

Memorials mat be made to Hospice of Southern Ohio, or the Diabetes Association.

Arrangments are under the direction of the F.C., Daehler Mortuary Company of POrtsmouth.