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Gertrude Ruttan 1904 - 2001

Gertrude Ruttan of Lawrence, Douglas County, KS was born on February 10, 1904, and died at age 97 years old on September 17, 2001.
Gertrude Ruttan
Lawrence, Douglas County, KS 66044
February 10, 1904
September 17, 2001
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  • 02/10
    1904

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    February 10, 1904
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  • 09/17
    2001

    Death

    September 17, 2001
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    Gertrude Ruttan lived 24 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 97.
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In 1904, in the year that Gertrude Ruttan 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 1933, Gertrude was 29 years old when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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