Dairy farmer Morris Rowell was a widower with five children when he married Mary Anthony Cox in 1974.

A more unlikely marriage — a more unlikely meeting — is difficult to imagine. He grew up in South Albany, Vt., milked cows and ran a farm equipment business. She was a daughter of the deep South, a Paris-trained classical pianist with a life in Manhattan and a career as a teacher at Juilliard, Amer-ica’s premier music school.

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