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		News & Info From Our Sponsor Sunday, November 16, 2008 • A mission to spread God's word M any who had known Jorge Osorio as a youth chuckled at his transformation. Sunday, November 16, 2008 • Brooklyn Dodgers southpaw spitballer Preacher Roe, 92 Preacher Roe, the folksy left-hander from the Ozarks who became a star pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, featuring superb control and a spitball he belatedly confessed to throwing, died Nov. 9 in West Plains, Mo. He was 92. • Lowell James Andrew A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, in the Sunnyside Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for Lowell James Andrew, who died Nov. 12 at age 81. • Mae Mercer sang the blues in Paris LOS ANGELES -- Mae Mercer, a deep-voiced blues singer who spent much of the 1960s performing at a blues bar in Paris and touring Europe before launching an acting career back in the United States in films and television, has died. She was 76. • Nurse created U.S. hospice movement WASHINGTON -- Florence S. Wald, a former Yale University nursing school dean who brought the hospice movement to the United States and started the first American hospice unit, died Nov. 8 at her home in Branford, Conn. No cause of death was reported. She was 91. To search for obituaries from the last 14 days, go to www.oregonlive.com/obituaries.
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