This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ward, Hennesy, Ritter Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/plB.2ACI/3676 Message Board Post: PORTER J. WARD, JR. A memorial service for Porter J. Ward, Jr., 51, of Palacios, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 25, 2006 at the First Presbyterian Church in Palacios. Mr. Ward was born Nov. 19. 1954 in Tell City, Indiana to Porter J. and Ida B. Ward. He died March 17, 2006. He and his wife, Rhonda, are the owners of Palacios Taxi Service. He is survived by his wife, Rhonda; son Joshua of Palacios; parents Edwin and Ida B. Hennesey of Jewitt, Tx; his father, Porter J. Ward; a brother, Allen Hennesey of Jewitt, Tx.; and a sister, Eddana Ritter of Jewitt, Tx. Due to Mr. Ward donating his body to the University of Texas Cancer Medical Research at M. B. Anderson, Houston, burial will be delayed up to two years. The family is very proud of this unselfish act in the hopes that the research may be able to find a cure for this dreaded disease so that someone else might live. Palacios Beacon March 22, 2006 Matagorda County, Texas