NATCHEZ — Services for Robert Joseph Ware, 56, of Natchez, who died Sunday, July 31, 2016, at Merit Health Vicksburg, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. J.L. Hammitte officiating.  

Burial will follow at Skinner’s Cemetery under the direction of Bateaste Memorial Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mr. Ware was the son of James Ware and Ruby Mazique Ware.

He was a graduate of Fremont High School in Los Angeles and attended Southwest Community College, also in Los Angeles.

He was preceded in death by his mother.