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When she saw his cowboy boots, beard and warm smile, she knew.

“I thought, ‘Oh, golly, I’d love to just hug him,’” Mary Morrow, 62, said with youthful giddiness.

Her blond hair and bubbly personality did it for him.

“She saw what she liked, and I saw what I liked,” Farrell Morrow, 67, said with a smitten smile.

Their shared background in the funeral business helped seal the deal.

“Neither one of us was afraid of what the other had done in funeral homes,” she said.

Within a matter of days, he was calling her “my angel,” and she referred to him as “my guy.”

Mary and Farrell Morrow are one of those love-at-first-sight couples. And they found each other later in life, at a time when neither thought such happiness was possible.

Mary had been a widow for 14 years when she met Farrell, who had had two unsuccessful marriages.

Their relationship moved quickly. They don’t like to reveal just how fast they went from first impression

to marriage because some people tend to question whether they rushed.

“We’re too old to wait too long,” Farrell said.

“Our age helps make our relationship much more meaningful and intense,” Mary said. “We’ve lived long enough to know what’s important.”

Mary, a Smithville native who lives in Platte City, and Farrell, who was living in North Kansas City when he met Mary, married at the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Edgerton last month. After the celebration, Farrell surprised his wife with a honeymoon to Nashville — a place Mary, a big country music fan, always wanted to visit.

Mary works as a hospital technician and used to volunteer in a funeral home. Farrell works for a funeral home as a driver. Farrell’s sister, Patty Perryn, and a woman who knew both Mary and her sister, Carmen Sherman, set up the couple’s first date.

“They pretty much had us married before we even met,” Farrell said.

During their first dinner date, Mary was so excited about Farrell that she called her sister, Sylvia Miller, from the restaurant bathroom as they were leaving the restaurant. The couple laugh when they remember how Mary took her leftovers box with her into the bathroom, but amid all the excitement, didn’t leave with them.

“We’ve been having fun ever since,” Farrell said. “She’s a wonderful person — just what God ordered for me.”

Down the road, the couple dream of living in Branson. No matter where they end up, they have one goal.

“We’re not ever going to grow up. I’m not going to grow up, and I won’t let her grow up. We don’t have time to grow up. We only have time to enjoy our life together,” he said.

mary and farrell morrow, the newlywed neighbors

- What their relationship has taught them:

“You don’t have to be young to have the same loving feelings you had when you were young,” Mary said.

- Favorite aspect of the Smithville area:

“I’ve always lived here, and it’s home,” Mary said.

Farrell added: “I like this area because she’s here.”



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