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Vera Katz, right, in 2003. She was mayor of Portland from 1993 to 2005.
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Vera Katz
Died on December 11, 2017 at age 84
Ms. Katz was a refugee from Nazi Germany and a former Brooklynite who became a feminist force in Oregon and a three-term mayor of its largest city, Portland, as it grew from an unremarkable port and timber town into a liberal bastion of visionary urban planning.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.