Last Residence: San Jose, Santa Clara, California
1940: Patterson, Stanislaus, California
1930: San Jose, Santa Clara, California
Age at Death: 67
(Source: Mission City
Memorial Park cemetery
record.)
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David Cuevas, Who Got Out But Came Back As Minister
Newspaper: April 18, 1994 | Mercury News, The
San Jose, California
Author: MACK LUNDSTROM, Mercury News Staff Writer | Page: 5B | Section: Loca
Back when living in the shacks of East San Jose on a dead-end dirt street named Summer meant sal si puedes, David Cuevas and his 17 brothers and sisters did "get out if you can," sort of.
In season, the Cuevases came as a package. Santa Clara Valley orchardists preferred a single deal with their parents, Eliseo and Tomasa Cuevas, to provide the whole prune-picking crew or pear-picking crew.
Off season, they got out to Texas, where they worked as field hands, or to Danville, where Eliseo Cuevas developed a contracting business and built adobe homes.
More than leaving
David Cuevas got out to study for the ministry, said his daughter, Ruth Clark. But he understood that sal si puedes! meant more than just leaving the barrio, and he never broke his bonds with it.
When the Rev. Moses David Cuevas died of heart illness April 7 in a San Jose hospital, he had left San Jose many times in his 66 years. Yet he always came back.
The Cuevases first came to San Jose in the 1920s. They were Baptists, and Eliseo and his sons helped build El Buen Pastor, the church at the end of Summer Street.
It was Pastor Felipe Galindo who first inspired young David Cuevas, and when he was 16, his parents sent him off to East Los Angeles to study at the seminary.
He met and married Sally Caceres and went out to preach. "His first ministry was in Madera," said his daughter. "He had so many churches; I remember living in San Diego and Salinas, and he would travel to Gilroy and Vacaville and Sacramento. He'd go all over to help small churches and build them up."
Founded three churches
In the late '50s, the Rev. Mr. Cuevas returned to San Jose to found three churches -- El Templo Bautista on White Road; La Iglesia Memorial, which is now known as La Iglesia Bautista Espanola de Fleming; and the San Jose First Baptist Spanish Church in Willow Glen.
''I didn't realize that I was poor," Clark said, "because we were happy, helping people, but my mom had to work most of her life because the minister's salary was so poor."
The Rev. Mr. Cuevas was a forceful speaker, said his daughter. If he saw someone in the congregation he suspected did not speak Spanish, she said, "he would speak in Spanish and then translate in English."
The Rev. Mr. Cuevas took his missionary work to Baja California after a divorce, and in 1976, he remarried. In San Vicente, David and Martha Cuevas together started the First Baptist Church of San Vicente.
''My dad would go back and forth," Clark said. He'd stay in Baja for three months or so, then return to San Jose to live with his daughter there for a couple of months. "If some of the women in Mexico would need a stove," Clark said, "he would bring the needs of his people" in Mexico to the members of his former churches in San Jose.
''They always knew they were going to get a lecture," Clark said. "When he came back from Mexico, everybody knew they'd get their little lecture if they weren't living the straight and narrow."
BORN: April 18, 1927, El Paso, Texas.
DIED: April 7, 1994, San Jose, Calif.
SURVIVED BY: Wife, Martha Cuevas; sons Allin and David Jr. and daughter Susana, all of San Vicente, Baja California, Mexico; daughter Ruth Clark of San Jose; son Eliseo of Escalon; brothers Sam of San Jose and Paul of Albuquerque, N.M.; grandchildren Nathanael, Jonathan, Eliseo Jr., Marlo, Martin, Elise and Caleb; one great-granddaughter.
SERVICES: Have been held; burial in Mission City Memorial Park, Santa Clara.
1940: Patterson, Stanislaus, California
1930: San Jose, Santa Clara, California
Age at Death: 67
(Source: Mission City
Memorial Park cemetery
record.)
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David Cuevas, Who Got Out But Came Back As Minister
Newspaper: April 18, 1994 | Mercury News, The
San Jose, California
Author: MACK LUNDSTROM, Mercury News Staff Writer | Page: 5B | Section: Loca
Back when living in the shacks of East San Jose on a dead-end dirt street named Summer meant sal si puedes, David Cuevas and his 17 brothers and sisters did "get out if you can," sort of.
In season, the Cuevases came as a package. Santa Clara Valley orchardists preferred a single deal with their parents, Eliseo and Tomasa Cuevas, to provide the whole prune-picking crew or pear-picking crew.
Off season, they got out to Texas, where they worked as field hands, or to Danville, where Eliseo Cuevas developed a contracting business and built adobe homes.
More than leaving
David Cuevas got out to study for the ministry, said his daughter, Ruth Clark. But he understood that sal si puedes! meant more than just leaving the barrio, and he never broke his bonds with it.
When the Rev. Moses David Cuevas died of heart illness April 7 in a San Jose hospital, he had left San Jose many times in his 66 years. Yet he always came back.
The Cuevases first came to San Jose in the 1920s. They were Baptists, and Eliseo and his sons helped build El Buen Pastor, the church at the end of Summer Street.
It was Pastor Felipe Galindo who first inspired young David Cuevas, and when he was 16, his parents sent him off to East Los Angeles to study at the seminary.
He met and married Sally Caceres and went out to preach. "His first ministry was in Madera," said his daughter. "He had so many churches; I remember living in San Diego and Salinas, and he would travel to Gilroy and Vacaville and Sacramento. He'd go all over to help small churches and build them up."
Founded three churches
In the late '50s, the Rev. Mr. Cuevas returned to San Jose to found three churches -- El Templo Bautista on White Road; La Iglesia Memorial, which is now known as La Iglesia Bautista Espanola de Fleming; and the San Jose First Baptist Spanish Church in Willow Glen.
''I didn't realize that I was poor," Clark said, "because we were happy, helping people, but my mom had to work most of her life because the minister's salary was so poor."
The Rev. Mr. Cuevas was a forceful speaker, said his daughter. If he saw someone in the congregation he suspected did not speak Spanish, she said, "he would speak in Spanish and then translate in English."
The Rev. Mr. Cuevas took his missionary work to Baja California after a divorce, and in 1976, he remarried. In San Vicente, David and Martha Cuevas together started the First Baptist Church of San Vicente.
''My dad would go back and forth," Clark said. He'd stay in Baja for three months or so, then return to San Jose to live with his daughter there for a couple of months. "If some of the women in Mexico would need a stove," Clark said, "he would bring the needs of his people" in Mexico to the members of his former churches in San Jose.
''They always knew they were going to get a lecture," Clark said. "When he came back from Mexico, everybody knew they'd get their little lecture if they weren't living the straight and narrow."
BORN: April 18, 1927, El Paso, Texas.
DIED: April 7, 1994, San Jose, Calif.
SURVIVED BY: Wife, Martha Cuevas; sons Allin and David Jr. and daughter Susana, all of San Vicente, Baja California, Mexico; daughter Ruth Clark of San Jose; son Eliseo of Escalon; brothers Sam of San Jose and Paul of Albuquerque, N.M.; grandchildren Nathanael, Jonathan, Eliseo Jr., Marlo, Martin, Elise and Caleb; one great-granddaughter.
SERVICES: Have been held; burial in Mission City Memorial Park, Santa Clara.
Last Residence: San Jose, Santa Clara, California
1940: Patterson, Stanislaus, California
1930: San Jose, Santa Clara, California
Age at Death: 67
(Source: Mission City
Memorial Park cemetery
record.)
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David Cuevas, Who Got Out But Came Back As Minister
Newspaper: April 18, 1994 | Mercury News, The
San Jose, California
Author: MACK LUNDSTROM, Mercury News Staff Writer | Page: 5B | Section: Loca
Back when living in the shacks of East San Jose on a dead-end dirt street named Summer meant sal si puedes, David Cuevas and his 17 brothers and sisters did "get out if you can," sort of.
In season, the Cuevases came as a package. Santa Clara Valley orchardists preferred a single deal with their parents, Eliseo and Tomasa Cuevas, to provide the whole prune-picking crew or pear-picking crew.
Off season, they got out to Texas, where they worked as field hands, or to Danville, where Eliseo Cuevas developed a contracting business and built adobe homes.
More than leaving
David Cuevas got out to study for the ministry, said his daughter, Ruth Clark. But he understood that sal si puedes! meant more than just leaving the barrio, and he never broke his bonds with it.
When the Rev. Moses David Cuevas died of heart illness April 7 in a San Jose hospital, he had left San Jose many times in his 66 years. Yet he always came back.
The Cuevases first came to San Jose in the 1920s. They were Baptists, and Eliseo and his sons helped build El Buen Pastor, the church at the end of Summer Street.
It was Pastor Felipe Galindo who first inspired young David Cuevas, and when he was 16, his parents sent him off to East Los Angeles to study at the seminary.
He met and married Sally Caceres and went out to preach. "His first ministry was in Madera," said his daughter. "He had so many churches; I remember living in San Diego and Salinas, and he would travel to Gilroy and Vacaville and Sacramento. He'd go all over to help small churches and build them up."
Founded three churches
In the late '50s, the Rev. Mr. Cuevas returned to San Jose to found three churches -- El Templo Bautista on White Road; La Iglesia Memorial, which is now known as La Iglesia Bautista Espanola de Fleming; and the San Jose First Baptist Spanish Church in Willow Glen.
''I didn't realize that I was poor," Clark said, "because we were happy, helping people, but my mom had to work most of her life because the minister's salary was so poor."
The Rev. Mr. Cuevas was a forceful speaker, said his daughter. If he saw someone in the congregation he suspected did not speak Spanish, she said, "he would speak in Spanish and then translate in English."
The Rev. Mr. Cuevas took his missionary work to Baja California after a divorce, and in 1976, he remarried. In San Vicente, David and Martha Cuevas together started the First Baptist Church of San Vicente.
''My dad would go back and forth," Clark said. He'd stay in Baja for three months or so, then return to San Jose to live with his daughter there for a couple of months. "If some of the women in Mexico would need a stove," Clark said, "he would bring the needs of his people" in Mexico to the members of his former churches in San Jose.
''They always knew they were going to get a lecture," Clark said. "When he came back from Mexico, everybody knew they'd get their little lecture if they weren't living the straight and narrow."
BORN: April 18, 1927, El Paso, Texas.
DIED: April 7, 1994, San Jose, Calif.
SURVIVED BY: Wife, Martha Cuevas; sons Allin and David Jr. and daughter Susana, all of San Vicente, Baja California, Mexico; daughter Ruth Clark of San Jose; son Eliseo of Escalon; brothers Sam of San Jose and Paul of Albuquerque, N.M.; grandchildren Nathanael, Jonathan, Eliseo Jr., Marlo, Martin, Elise and Caleb; one great-granddaughter.
SERVICES: Have been held; burial in Mission City Memorial Park, Santa Clara.
1940: Patterson, Stanislaus, California
1930: San Jose, Santa Clara, California
Age at Death: 67
(Source: Mission City
Memorial Park cemetery
record.)
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David Cuevas, Who Got Out But Came Back As Minister
Newspaper: April 18, 1994 | Mercury News, The
San Jose, California
Author: MACK LUNDSTROM, Mercury News Staff Writer | Page: 5B | Section: Loca
Back when living in the shacks of East San Jose on a dead-end dirt street named Summer meant sal si puedes, David Cuevas and his 17 brothers and sisters did "get out if you can," sort of.
In season, the Cuevases came as a package. Santa Clara Valley orchardists preferred a single deal with their parents, Eliseo and Tomasa Cuevas, to provide the whole prune-picking crew or pear-picking crew.
Off season, they got out to Texas, where they worked as field hands, or to Danville, where Eliseo Cuevas developed a contracting business and built adobe homes.
More than leaving
David Cuevas got out to study for the ministry, said his daughter, Ruth Clark. But he understood that sal si puedes! meant more than just leaving the barrio, and he never broke his bonds with it.
When the Rev. Moses David Cuevas died of heart illness April 7 in a San Jose hospital, he had left San Jose many times in his 66 years. Yet he always came back.
The Cuevases first came to San Jose in the 1920s. They were Baptists, and Eliseo and his sons helped build El Buen Pastor, the church at the end of Summer Street.
It was Pastor Felipe Galindo who first inspired young David Cuevas, and when he was 16, his parents sent him off to East Los Angeles to study at the seminary.
He met and married Sally Caceres and went out to preach. "His first ministry was in Madera," said his daughter. "He had so many churches; I remember living in San Diego and Salinas, and he would travel to Gilroy and Vacaville and Sacramento. He'd go all over to help small churches and build them up."
Founded three churches
In the late '50s, the Rev. Mr. Cuevas returned to San Jose to found three churches -- El Templo Bautista on White Road; La Iglesia Memorial, which is now known as La Iglesia Bautista Espanola de Fleming; and the San Jose First Baptist Spanish Church in Willow Glen.
''I didn't realize that I was poor," Clark said, "because we were happy, helping people, but my mom had to work most of her life because the minister's salary was so poor."
The Rev. Mr. Cuevas was a forceful speaker, said his daughter. If he saw someone in the congregation he suspected did not speak Spanish, she said, "he would speak in Spanish and then translate in English."
The Rev. Mr. Cuevas took his missionary work to Baja California after a divorce, and in 1976, he remarried. In San Vicente, David and Martha Cuevas together started the First Baptist Church of San Vicente.
''My dad would go back and forth," Clark said. He'd stay in Baja for three months or so, then return to San Jose to live with his daughter there for a couple of months. "If some of the women in Mexico would need a stove," Clark said, "he would bring the needs of his people" in Mexico to the members of his former churches in San Jose.
''They always knew they were going to get a lecture," Clark said. "When he came back from Mexico, everybody knew they'd get their little lecture if they weren't living the straight and narrow."
BORN: April 18, 1927, El Paso, Texas.
DIED: April 7, 1994, San Jose, Calif.
SURVIVED BY: Wife, Martha Cuevas; sons Allin and David Jr. and daughter Susana, all of San Vicente, Baja California, Mexico; daughter Ruth Clark of San Jose; son Eliseo of Escalon; brothers Sam of San Jose and Paul of Albuquerque, N.M.; grandchildren Nathanael, Jonathan, Eliseo Jr., Marlo, Martin, Elise and Caleb; one great-granddaughter.
SERVICES: Have been held; burial in Mission City Memorial Park, Santa Clara.
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