The Miners: The Lives They Lived

The 13 men who worked together in the Sago Mine depended on friends, family and each other. Here are their stories

FRED WARE:
A FUN DAD

Nicknamed Bear, Ware, 58, was an outdoorsman from Tallmansville who would "light up" when he saw his two grown children, Peggy Cohen, 35, and Darrell Ware, 37. And he was known to throw snowballs in the house. "If you weren't laughing" around him, Cohen says, "you would be soon."