Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota as part of the International Democrat Union, a working organization of center and center-right parties throughout the world. She was listed by the Union as the party's contact. Ware died of complications of Alzheimer's disease on December 14, 2017, at a hospital in Denver, Colorado. She was 74. Awards and recognition Ware was awarded an honorary Doctor of Public Services from Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in 1988 and awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA in 2004. In 2002 and 2003, she was named to "Sy Snyder's Power 50," the PoliticsPA list of politically influential individuals in Pennsylvania. She was also named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powerful Women" References This article incorporates text in the public domain from the United States Department of State. External links 1943 births 2017 deaths Politicians from Philadelphia Journalists from Pennsylvania American University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni American women ambassadors Ambassadors of the United States to Finland American women chief executives Pennsylvania Republicans Deaths from Alzheimer's disease Neurological disease deaths in Colorado 21st-century American women