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Josephine B Geffken 1904 - 2002

Josephine B Geffken of Winter Park, Orange County, FL was born on February 5, 1904, and died at age 98 years old on December 23, 2002.
Josephine B Geffken
Winter Park, Orange County, FL 32789
February 5, 1904
December 23, 2002
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  • 02/5
    1904

    Birthday

    February 5, 1904
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  • 12/23
    2002

    Death

    December 23, 2002
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    Cause of death
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    Josephine B Geffken lived 25 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 98.
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In 1904, in the year that Josephine B Geffken 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 1914, when she was only 10 years old, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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