Posts Tagged ‘kathryn’

Wilson Greatbatch dies at 92; Invented implantable cardiac pacemaker

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Wilson Greatbatch, whose invention of the implantable cardiac pacemaker has kept millions of hearts beating in rhythm, died Tuesday. He was 92. Greatbatch died at an assisted living center in suburban Buffalo, where he had lived in recent years, said Kathryn Tarquin, spokeswoman for Greatbatch, Inc., the company he founded. Read full article > >

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Atlanta to pay $4.9 million in deadly raid

Monday, August 16th, 2010

The city of Atlanta will pay $4.9 million to the family of Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old woman who was killed in a botched November 2006 drug raid, Mayor Kasim Reed’s office announced Monday.

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