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Gertrude Dingfelder 1904 - 1981

Gertrude Dingfelder was born on October 23, 1904, and died at age 76 years old in June 1981. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gertrude Dingfelder.
Gertrude Dingfelder
October 23, 1904
June 1981
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    1904

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    October 23, 1904
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  • 06/dd
    1981

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    June 1981
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    Gertrude Dingfelder lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1904, in the year that Gertrude Dingfelder was born, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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In 1945, Gertrude was 41 years old when on April 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 1p, he was sitting for a portrait when he complained that he had a "terrific pain" in the back of his head and collapsed. A doctor was summoned and the doctor gave him a shot of adrenaline into his heart. It didn't help and he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. A slow moving train took him back to Washington D.C. while thousands of mourners lined the tracks. He was buried at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
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