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Transcribed from the June 27th,2001 Cuero, (Texas) Record Newspaper
Section A. page6
On Tuesday May 8, 1940 Damaris Terrell & Clarence Bowen met in Cuero at a softball game in the park for the Cuero Hardware Company. They dated steadily for months and that winter he asked her to marry him.The next March, Clarence presented Damaris with an engagement ring and Clarence's parents, Seymour and Bessie, gave their consent so that the young couple could get married.
On June 30, 1941, Clarence and Damaris eloped. Clarence drove to Yoakum in his old faded yellow Chevy and parked under Damaris' bedroom window. He then went into the house and sat down with her folks in the living room, just as if they were going out on a date. Damaris went upstairs and threw her clothes out the window, later loading them into the car and leaving for Cuero.
Unbenownst to them, Francis, Damaris' little sister went upstairs and noticed that Damaris' clothes were missing. She ran downstairs to tell her mother, "Damaris' clothes are gone!" Frank and Lena borrowed a car from a neighbor and started out in hot pursuit of the would be bride and groom.
Clarence and Damaris were on their way to cuero to pick up Horace and Mary Alice Starnes to be witnesses to their wedding. As they turned down Esplanade Street headed to Grandpa Hare's house they were horribly surprised when a car drove up beside them and Damaris' parents told them to pull over.
when Clarence saw who was in the car he was too scared to speak and Damaris knew that if they took her home that night, her dad could not protect her and she might never see Clarence again, so she lied and said that they were already married. At that, Frank said," Well, Lena, there is nothing we can do now, they are already married, "and Lena said, "Oh my poor baby" and they turned the car around and went back to Yoakum.
The young couple breathed a sigh of relief and continued on to Grandpa Hare's house where they got him and his wife out of bed at 8:00 P.M. to marry Clarence and Damaris, while Horace and Mary Alice witnessed the ceremony.
Grandpa and Grandma Hare performed the ceremony in their nightshirts for just five dollars.
The Bowens lived in Cuero with their family until 1960 when they moved to San Antonio, from there they moved to Houston in 1965 where they live today.. Marlen Fruth, their youngest, lives near them with her family. Bill Bowen and his wife also live in the Houston area and Ginger Bowen, the oldest, lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Sylvia Barker their second child, passed away on January 13, 1999, but lives on in their hearts. They have seven wonderful grandchildren and six incredible great-grandchildren.
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