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— Rock ‘n’ roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis has married for a seventh time in Mississippi, and the new bride is his cousin’s ex-wife. Judith Ann Coghlan Lewis, 62, worked several years as Lewis’ caretaker at his home in Nesbit, Miss., just south of Memphis - a job she said she was sent to do by her then-husband and one of Lewis’ ex-wives, who were brother and sister. She said she and the 76-year old Lewis never intended to fall in love. It just happened. She said she married for love, not for money. The Adams County circuit clerk’s office said the marriage license shows the two were married March 9 in Natchez, Miss. Lewis is famous for top hits like “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.” The bride was previously married to one of Lewis’ cousins, Rusty Brown. They divorced in 2010. Brown’s older sister, Myra Gale Brown, married Lewis in 1957 when she was 13 and was his third wife. That marriage caused shock waves for Lewis’ career. Lewis’ sixth marriage ended in 2004 when he divorced Kerrie McCarver after 20 years.

The Lubbock, Texas,home where Buddy Holly and childhood friend Jerry Allison co-wrote “That’ll Be The Day” is being moved to a site that memorializes the famed 1950s rock ’n’ roll pioneer. The house where Allison spent some of his teenage years will find a home at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, said Brooke Witcher, the center’s director of museums and special events. The cultural arts group Civic Lubbock Inc. is paying for the move, she said. “I am very pleased the old house is being redone,” Allison - the only person to play drums for Holly’s group, The Crickets - told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal in a story published Friday. Holly, 22, was killed Feb. 2, 1959, in an Iowa plane crash.

Front Section, Pages 2 on 03/31/2012

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