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(from the Pasadena Independent 13 December 1958--It's important to stay on Cheryl's good side!)
Lena's Ex Will Wed Divorcee
HOLLYWOOD. (UPI) Helen
Bedding Demaree, 25, a travel
agency receptionist, yesterday
confirmed reports that she
would marry restaurateur
Stephen Crane, whom she met
a year ago In one of his restau-
rants.
Mrs Demaree, a divorcee
who said she is part Irish, part
mission Indian, and originally
from Lawrence, Kan, said no
date had yet been set for the
wedding to Crane former hus-
band of film star Lana Turner
"We're very good friends,"
she said of Crane's and Lana's
daughter Cheryl tall teen ager
who stabbed to death her
mother's boy friend, Johnny
Stompanato, last April 4 The
girl has been In the custody
of her maternal grandmother
Mrs. Mildred Turner, and was
hospltalized last week for an
appendectomy
The childless fiancee, wear-
ing a four-carat diamond ring
from Crane said she expected
no opposition from Miss
Turner to plans for a trip for
her and Cheryl to Montreal
where Crane Is building a new
restaurant.
Crane said the wedding
would take place after he completes
building two more
restaurants, or approximately
six months.
"No definite date has been
set, but I did give the young
lady a ring," hee said. "She
and Cheryl are very good
friends."
"Stephen and I met about a
year ago," Mrs. Demaree said.
"I had gone to his restaurant
here, the Luau, with mutual
friends. We were introduced,
and we became engaged about
three weeks ago.
"I have met Lana Turner,
and she's always been very
nice to me.'
Mrs. Demaree lives in Beverly
Hills the brown eyed bru-
nette was divorced from architect
James Demaree In 1956
after four years of marriage
Her grandparents live in Coffee-
ville, Kan. She has been in
this area for the last two
years.
Crane was married previously
to Miss Turner, from whom
he was divorced in 1944; Carol
Kuntz. Indianapolis socialite;
and, French actress Martine
Carol.
Cheryl Crane cleared by a
coroner's jury after the Stompanato
killing, underwent an
emergency appendectomy
Thursday and was.expected to
remain at St. John's Hospital
in nearby Santa Monica for
the next five days.
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