Former US congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar, 85, has died. She represented the state of Ohio:
She served in Congress from 1977 to 1993.
Oakar was born in Cleveland on March 5, 1940 to parents of Lebanese and Syrian ancestry, according to her congressional biography. Her election to serve Ohio's 20th district, representing Cleveland's west side and surrounding Cuyahoga County suburbs, made her not only the state's first Democratic congresswoman but also the first Arab American woman, and first Syrian American and first Lebanese American to serve in the United States Congress.
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Actress Patricia Crowley, 91, who was seen on almost every single television show that ever existed in the 1950s and 1960s, plus starring in a sitcom called Please Don't Eat the Daisies, died September 14.
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The Pennsylvania native also appeared in two Martin & Lewis comedies, Money From Home (1953) and Hollywood or Bust (1956), the duo’s final film together; starred opposite Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in the Douglas Sirk melodrama There’s Always Tomorrow (1956); and played Jeffrey Hunter’s terrified wife in Key Witness (1960), directed by Phil Karlson.
Her survivors include her husband, television producer and executive Andy Friendly (Entertainment Tonight, Tom Snyder’s The Tomorrow Show), whom she wed in 1986.
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