Allison Stacey Cowles dies at 75

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Allison Stacey Cowles, a member of a Spokane, Wash., family with large media holdings and the wife of retired New York Times patriarch Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, has died at the age of 75.

The Spokesman-Review said Cowles died late Saturday from pancreatic cancer.

Cowles married Sulzberger in 1996, four years after her first husband, William H. Cowles III, died of a heart attack while jogging. Sulzberger was chairman and chief executive officer of The New York Times Co.

The couple moved to Spokane several weeks ago after Allison Cowles was diagnosed with cancer.

--Associated Press