So I don’t believe that he had time to be married before he left Cuba.
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Didn’t say he was married before he left Cuba. He came to UT,
enrolled and got married somewhere around his junior year, had
two daughters, got divorced at some point, hooked up with Eleanor,
married her and they went to Canada where Edward was born.
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In 1959, Cruz married Julia Ann Garza (1939-2013), but divorced after a few years.
She later became a professor at California State University, Stanislaus. They had two
daughters, Miriam Ceferina Cruz (11/22/61-2011) and Roxana Lourdes Cruz (b. 1962), a Greenville,
Texas, physician. He has one grandson.[8][19][27][28]
source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Bienvenido_Cruz