in Lexington , Clouse had a choice of being placed at Somerset or Hazard . Clouse had never been to Hazard but he had taken frequent Sunday drives on a circuit around Cumberland Falls through Somerset and London then back to Corbin growing up .
“ It was the cleanest , neatest little town I had ever seen ,” Clouse said . “ I was tickled to get to Somerset .”
So Clouse went to work at the Somerset VA office — then on Fountain Square — where he met his future wife , Ruth Gover .
“ I had a desk on one side of the aisle and she had a desk on the opposite side ,” Clouse recalled . “ One day she got up and came across to my desk and said she would like to go to Lexington and see the horse races . I said I would like to go too , and that was our first date .”
The Clouses were married 66 years , from 1947 until her death on August 2 , 2013 . They moved into a home on Holmes Avenue in May 1953 , as the finishing touches were still being completed . There they ’ d raise four sons , and Clouse still calls it home today — living with his grandson Shawn and three dogs he
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The Briar Jumpers baseball head coach Phil Grundy ( left ) recently presented Clyde Clouse with Somerset jerseys and named him an honorary coach on his 100th birthday for all he ’ s done for fighting for our country and developing young baseball players over the years .
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