http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1954/04/25/page...-c-bowes-wed-in-eastCuneo Heiress, J. C. Bowes Wed in East
Engaged Before Her First MarriageConsuela Cuneo, 21 was married to J. Cannon Bowes in St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic church, New York City.
The bride’s father, John F. Cuneo, millionaire head of a printing company, and Mrs. Cuneo, whose home is the Hawthorn Farms, Libertyville, attended the ceremony and left afterwards for Europe.
Plan Chicago HomeJerome P. Bowes III was best man for his brother, who is associated with a Chicago insurance brokerage. Muriel J. Berlin attended Mrs. Bowes.
The former Miss Cuneo told a reporter after the ceremony that she and her husband plan to visit Europe. They will be gone several weeks before setting up residence in Chicago, she said.
Guests at the wedding included Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hagerty of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Hobbs, and John Crehan of Boston.
Eloped in 1952Miss Cuneo had been engaged to Bowes when she eloped with Leslie L. Cooke Jr., 29, on June 24, 1952. They were married by a justice of the peace in Augusta, near Little Rock, Ark.
The marriage ended in divorce last Dec. 30 when the then Mrs. Cooke obtained a divorce in Cook county Circuit court from Cooke on a charge of cruelty. Cooke lives at the Cooke Valley farm, Eldred, Greene county, and is an insurance executive.
Bowes, a graduate of the United States Naval academy and a lieutenant in the naval reserve, was serving with the aircraft carrier Wasp in the Mediterranean when Miss Cuneo married Cooke.
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Cuneo Heiress Wins Divorce From Bowes
Chicago, Ill. (AP) — Mrs. Consuela Cuneo Bowes, 32, won a divorce Friday on cruelty grounds from James Channon Bowes, owner of Bowes Firestone Insurance Company.
Mrs. Bowes’s father is John F. Cuneo, president of the Cuneo Press, giant printing firm.