April 25, 1921, Alvin Ross Shumate and his bride, Verna Ethel Potts, welcomed a new daughter to their growing family. She grew up in the rural area of Arkansas near Greenbriar.
In the early 1940's, as so many women did, she moved to Little Rock and found work in a department store. She worked for Gus Blass Department Store, Pfeifer Brothers Department Store and her much loved, M M Cohn.
About 1942, she met and married, Robert Milo Curtis, son of Albert Jesse Curtis and Eve Ester McGough . Robert known in his private life as "Mike" was in the service. Mike and Clara. on Sept 12, 1943, had a son Jesse Ross Curtis.
The marriage of Mike and Clara was not a good one. He was four years her junior. Being the independent woman she was they divorced in 1945. Seven years later they remarried briefly.
She met and married, Noel Cole in 1967. They remained so until his passing.
Clara lived various places downtown, but it was her move to the "Clise Apts" located at 1221 S Louisiana, that brought the lifelong last friendships. She moved from the Clise Apts in 1965 where she bought a new home in the growing suburbs of Little Rock. She maintained her friendships with those at the Clise Apts.
Late afternoon July 26, 1995, Clara Bell was rushed to the hospital for open heart surgery.
Sadly, in the early hours of July 27, 1995 the doctors had to open her back up to massage her heart. It was so fragile it just crumbled, with that act, she was gone. Clara Bell Shumate Curtis Curtis Cole was dead at 74.
She may be gone but she lives on in our memories with her phrase, "thunder heads a boiling".
In the early 1940's, as so many women did, she moved to Little Rock and found work in a department store. She worked for Gus Blass Department Store, Pfeifer Brothers Department Store and her much loved, M M Cohn.
About 1942, she met and married, Robert Milo Curtis, son of Albert Jesse Curtis and Eve Ester McGough . Robert known in his private life as "Mike" was in the service. Mike and Clara. on Sept 12, 1943, had a son Jesse Ross Curtis.
The marriage of Mike and Clara was not a good one. He was four years her junior. Being the independent woman she was they divorced in 1945. Seven years later they remarried briefly.
She met and married, Noel Cole in 1967. They remained so until his passing.
Clara lived various places downtown, but it was her move to the "Clise Apts" located at 1221 S Louisiana, that brought the lifelong last friendships. She moved from the Clise Apts in 1965 where she bought a new home in the growing suburbs of Little Rock. She maintained her friendships with those at the Clise Apts.
Late afternoon July 26, 1995, Clara Bell was rushed to the hospital for open heart surgery.
Sadly, in the early hours of July 27, 1995 the doctors had to open her back up to massage her heart. It was so fragile it just crumbled, with that act, she was gone. Clara Bell Shumate Curtis Curtis Cole was dead at 74.
She may be gone but she lives on in our memories with her phrase, "thunder heads a boiling".
April 25, 1921, Alvin Ross Shumate and his bride, Verna Ethel Potts, welcomed a new daughter to their growing family. She grew up in the rural area of Arkansas near Greenbriar.
In the early 1940's, as so many women did, she moved to Little Rock and found work in a department store. She worked for Gus Blass Department Store, Pfeifer Brothers Department Store and her much loved, M M Cohn.
About 1942, she met and married, Robert Milo Curtis, son of Albert Jesse Curtis and Eve Ester McGough . Robert known in his private life as "Mike" was in the service. Mike and Clara. on Sept 12, 1943, had a son Jesse Ross Curtis.
The marriage of Mike and Clara was not a good one. He was four years her junior. Being the independent woman she was they divorced in 1945. Seven years later they remarried briefly.
She met and married, Noel Cole in 1967. They remained so until his passing.
Clara lived various places downtown, but it was her move to the "Clise Apts" located at 1221 S Louisiana, that brought the lifelong last friendships. She moved from the Clise Apts in 1965 where she bought a new home in the growing suburbs of Little Rock. She maintained her friendships with those at the Clise Apts.
Late afternoon July 26, 1995, Clara Bell was rushed to the hospital for open heart surgery.
Sadly, in the early hours of July 27, 1995 the doctors had to open her back up to massage her heart. It was so fragile it just crumbled, with that act, she was gone. Clara Bell Shumate Curtis Curtis Cole was dead at 74.
She may be gone but she lives on in our memories with her phrase, "thunder heads a boiling".
In the early 1940's, as so many women did, she moved to Little Rock and found work in a department store. She worked for Gus Blass Department Store, Pfeifer Brothers Department Store and her much loved, M M Cohn.
About 1942, she met and married, Robert Milo Curtis, son of Albert Jesse Curtis and Eve Ester McGough . Robert known in his private life as "Mike" was in the service. Mike and Clara. on Sept 12, 1943, had a son Jesse Ross Curtis.
The marriage of Mike and Clara was not a good one. He was four years her junior. Being the independent woman she was they divorced in 1945. Seven years later they remarried briefly.
She met and married, Noel Cole in 1967. They remained so until his passing.
Clara lived various places downtown, but it was her move to the "Clise Apts" located at 1221 S Louisiana, that brought the lifelong last friendships. She moved from the Clise Apts in 1965 where she bought a new home in the growing suburbs of Little Rock. She maintained her friendships with those at the Clise Apts.
Late afternoon July 26, 1995, Clara Bell was rushed to the hospital for open heart surgery.
Sadly, in the early hours of July 27, 1995 the doctors had to open her back up to massage her heart. It was so fragile it just crumbled, with that act, she was gone. Clara Bell Shumate Curtis Curtis Cole was dead at 74.
She may be gone but she lives on in our memories with her phrase, "thunder heads a boiling".
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