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		News & Info From Our Sponsor Sunday, November 23, 2008 • Biker was more like a steamroller S yd Maiden was a symbol of determination on the streets of Gresham, an older man wearing a bright green stocking cap under his bicycle helmet, pedaling his recumbent three-wheeler very slowly, two orange flags fluttering behind him. Sunday, November 23, 2008 • Composer for science fiction movies Irving Gertz, a prolific though often uncredited B-movie composer whose melodies haunt a spate of pictures with words like "Hell," "Thing" and "Creature" in the titles, died Nov. 14 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93. • Ora Mae Blanchard Marilyn Lucille Hale died Nov. 18, 2008, at age 72. Marilyn Lucille Hale was born July 8, 1936, in Long Creek. A homemaker, she lived in Prineville before moving to Forest Grove in 1996 and most recently lived in Hillsboro. In 1956, she married Charles Shepard; he died in 1969. • Surgeon did first U.S. heart transplant Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the pioneering cardiovascular surgeon who performed the first U.S. heart transplant, developed a balloon-pumping device that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and developed mechanical heart-assist devices, died of heart failure Nov. 14 in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 90. • Top-ranked player Graebner worked tirelessly for tennis Carole Caldwell Graebner, a top-ranked women's doubles player and tireless supporter of the Fed Cup, an international tennis competition that she and her longtime friend Billie Jean King helped inaugurate on a winning team in London in 1963, died Nov. 19 in Manhattan. She was 65 and had lived in New York for nearly 40 years. To search for obituaries from the last 14 days, go to www.oregonlive.com/obituaries.
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