Gilbert L. Ware

Rank: Captain, U.S. Army

Serial: O-222972

Unit: Army Air Transport Command

Entered service from: New Jersey

Born: April 18, 1900

Died: November 8, 1945

Buried: Haddonfield Baptist Cemetery, Haddonfield, New Jersey

Captain Gilbert Lentner Ware was born in 1900 in Pennsylvania, the eldest son of Edward M. and Margaret F. Ware. His father ran a printing business. When he registered for the draft in September of 1918, he was working as a clerk for Amatol, Inc. in Atlantic City. In 1920, both Gilbert and his brother Marc Kendall Ware were working in the printing business, and the Ware family lived on Hamilton Avenue in Haddonfield, New Jersey. He also had a younger sister, Helen Ware.

Gilbert Ware married in 1926, and by 1930 had bought a home at 115 Wesley Avenue in Collingswood, New Jersey, with his wife Dorothy. He was employed as a salesman in the printing industry.

Captain Gilbert L. Ware died while serving as an officer with the United States Army’s Air Transport Command on November 8, 1945. He is buried at Haddonfield Baptist Cemetery in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Mrs. Dorothy Ware became a charter member of the Camden County Chapter of the Gold Star Wives of World War II in November of 1947.