Woman turns late husband's hunting jacket into teddy bear
By Paul Wood
Tuesday July 22, 2008
John Dixon
Jackie Sansone hugs Hank, her Memory Bear, after stuffing him with batting at Monday at Heartland Health Care Center in Champaign. With help from Provena Hospice, Sansone made the Memory Bear from material taken from her late husband's hunting jacket.
CHAMPAIGN – When Jackie Sansone and her husband of 54 years went deer hunting together, sometimes she would lay her head on the shoulder of his hunting jacket.
A year ago, Henry Sansone Jr. passed away, and Jackie went to live in Heartland Health Care Center in Champaign.
To mark their wedding anniversary of June 6, Jackie spent Monday finishing up a Memory Bear, a teddy bear made from a loved one's clothes – in this case, the well-worn hunting jacket that still bears a faint impression of her husband.
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