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Mom’s Teddy Bear

This Toy was submitted May 10, 2014 by Susan Fernsebner

Type: Animals

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Mom’s teddy bear, given to her when she was a young girl in the 1940s in Massachusetts. Manufacturer unknown. A story accompanies the bear, according my mother, who speaks of her own mother, Irene Truax (nee LaBrie):

“My mother was not a seamstress. She didn’t like to sew at all, and she would only darn socks. She would find it peaceful to sit and darn. My bear was coming apart and she mended him. But she did it [as she didn't like to sew] in two big, huge stitches.” Mom laughs, in recounting the story, “The whole family was amazed that she actually sewed something.”

My mother continues, “The bear was leaking stuffing everywhere and needed to be mended. She sewed my bear even though she hated to sew. You can still see the two, big stitches.”

[Author's Note: Examining the bear today, over sixty years later, the stitches still can be seen, and still hold well.]

[P. Fernsebner / Monument Beach, MA. Oral account, 11 May 2014.]

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