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Verna Safko 1904 - 1998

Verna Safko of Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, PA was born on July 23, 1904, and died at age 93 years old on May 25, 1998.

Verna Safko
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Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, PA 17976
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Verna Safko Verna Safko (1904 - 1998)
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In 1904, in the year that Verna Safko 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 1943, Verna was 39 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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Safko, Helen (Jul 14, 1908 - Oct 1978) Safko, John (Jul 14, 1894 - Nov 1966) Safko, Helen (Aug 29, 1904 - Jan 1973) Safko, Sarah (Sep 5, 1904 - Jan 12, 1991) Safko, Diana (May 15, 1923 - Oct 9, 1992) Safko, William (Jan 22, 1964 - Jun 15, 1994) Safko, Veronica (Jan 10, 1919 - Mar 4, 2007) Safko, Frank (Apr 19, 1916 - Jun 1983) Safko, Julius (Sep 15, 1893 - Feb 1966) Safko, Marion (Oct 22, 1925 - Jan 12, 2010)
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