Eula Bowers Tuttle
Raymond J. Bowers was born in Mineral Springs, Texas in 1904. In 1920, he opened Parker and Bowers Store with Norman Parker, a hardware merchant, next to the Bank of Tuttle on Main Street.
In 1924 he married Eula Copp, born in Newcastle but raised in Tuttle.
Mrs. Eula Copp Bowers was widowed during an influenza epidemic in World War I. since she had children to support, she went to work in Mr. Bowers store and ended up working there for fifty years.
The store became just Bowers, it was a general store selling groceries, meats, vegetables, dry goods, jeans and shoes. In 1926, they moved across the street next to the Masonic Lodge. Then six years later, they relocated to the former site of City Hall. (NW Corner of SW 3rd and Main)
(Photo courtesy of Mrs. Eula Bowers of Tuttle)
When Mr. Bowers Died in 1939, Mrs. Bowers kept the store open and added a line of gifts and novelties and moved the store to the building next to the Star Pharmacy. The bright-eyed proprietress said, “I had five children to support, so I just tried anything that seemed like it would sell.”
Maybe that is why she stated in business so many years, she tried to accommodate her customer’s needs. In 1974, Mrs. Bowers retired but she remembered well her customers and her days in the store.
Reference: Express Plus August 18,1993 edition
Mrs. Eula Copp Bowers
Eula Bowers was born to Tom & Lora (Williams) Copp, 10/26/1899, in Indian Territory near Newcastle, OK, and died Thursday, 1/25/2001, in Tuttle, OK. She moved to the Tuttle area at the age of 6. She resided there until her peaceful death in her home at the age of 101.
Her First husband was Johnnie W. Cobble; they had one son together. Doris Laverne “Hunk” Cobble 1919-2007. She and Raymond had three children together Helen, Maxine, and Jim Bowers
Reference: Eula Copp Bowers (1899-2001) – Find a Grave Memorial