obit
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PublishedOctober 2, 2019
Bella Tovey, who bore witness to Holocaust, dies at 92
She survived Nazi labor and concentration camps as a Jewish teenager in Poland, living to tell her story to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2019
Jessye Norman, acclaimed operatic soprano, dies at 74
She was among the most celebrated singers of her era, with a repertoire spanning the canon from Wagner to Verdi and from Purcell to Poulenc.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2019
Al Alvarez, British critic and author who championed poetry and poker, dies at 90
He cultivated a reputation as a swashbuckling adrenaline seeker as well as an accomplished poet, novelist and literary critic.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2019
George Lardner Jr., who received Pulitzer for investigation of his daughter’s murder, dies at 85
Lardner said he would 'give anything not to have written' the story that won the 1993 prize for feature writing.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2019
Christopher Rouse, expressionistic composer who won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 70
Rouse was best known for his symphonies and concertos, which featured a sound that cellist Yo-Yo Ma once described as 'spiritual without being sentimental, deeply felt without sentimentality.'
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2019
Chester Williams, South African rugby star who symbolized end of apartheid, dies at 49
The athlete was the only nonwhite member of the 1995 World Cup-winning team, a story explored in the film 'Invictus.'
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2019
Betsy Parsons, 65, English teacher in Portland who advocated for LGBTQ youths
She helped found GLSEN Southern Maine and was instrumental in creating about 90 gay-straight alliance groups in high schools across Maine.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2019
T. Boone Pickens, Texas oil tycoon who led legendary corporate raids, dies at 91
Pickens' bold forays into the stock market and his visibility on magazine covers and TV made him one of the few businessmen in the 1980s who were instantly recognizable to the average American.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2019
Ferdinand Piëch, auto executive who made Volkswagen Europe’s biggest carmaker, dies at 82
In 1993, the year he became chief executive, only 62,000 Volkswagens were sold in the United States. Nine years later, more than 355,000 were sold.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2019
David Moran, owner of Sorella’s Bakehouse and an ‘unsung hero’ of Portland’s food scene
At the height of his career, he made bread for an estimated 200 to 300 businesses at the East Bayside bakery.
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