2026 SESSION
ENROLLED
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 254
Celebrating the life of Harry Hudnall Ware III, M.D.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 9, 2026
Agreed to by the Senate, March 11, 2026
WHEREAS, Harry Hudnall Ware III, M.D, a respected leader in health care who helped the Virginia Women's Center in Richmond become one of the largest practices devoted solely to women's health in the Commonwealth, died on November 25, 2025; and
WHEREAS, Hudnall Ware was born to the late Harry Hudnall Ware, Jr., and Mary Warren Williams Ware in Richmond and grew up in an area of the Fan District known locally as “Little Williamsburg,” due to the concentration of his relatives on his mother's side in the Williams family; and
WHEREAS, Hudnall Ware graduated from St. Christopher's School and earned his bachelor's and medical degrees from the University of Virginia, where he was active in student life as secretary of the Student Council, co-captain of the swim team, and a member of St. Anthony Hall, the Seven Society, the IMP Society, and the T.I.L.K.A. Society; and
WHEREAS, for two summers during college, Hudnall Ware served in the Military Sea Transportation Service, now Military Sealift Command, and visited several ports of call in Europe and Africa, an experience that stoked his curiosity and left a lasting impression on him; and
WHEREAS, Hudnall Ware interned at what is now the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, then served as an assistant resident, chief resident, and instructor in obstetrics and gynecology at what is now Weill Cornell Medicine in New York from 1959 to 1964; and