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Death Heft spent his last years in Saginaw, Michigan , where many of his family lived. On December 12, 2009, he died from a heart attack at Covenant Medical Center at the age of 68.
12 gru 2009 · Archived in the Eisenhower Presidential Center in Abilene, Kansas, only a small fraction of the proposed designs have ever been published. On December 12, 2009, Heft died from a heart attack at Covenant Medical Center at the age of 68.
13 gru 2009 · Robert G. Heft, the "Betsy Ross" of America's 50-star flag, has died. In 1958, a history teacher assigned Heft and his classmates at Lancaster High School to each redesign the national banner...
4 maj 2019 · Explore genealogy for Robert Heft born 1942 Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA died 2009 Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA including ancestors + questions + more in the free family tree community.
12 gru 2009 · Robert G. Heft, who is credited with designing and sewing the first 50-star American flag, has died. He was 67.
12 gru 2009 · Folk Figure. He is credited with designing the current 50-star American flag, which was chosen by Congress as the official national flag of the United States on July 4, 1960. Heft's design was part of a class project at Lancaster High School in Lancaster, Ohio, beginning in 1958, to replace the 48-star flag in...
Heft’s 51-star flag reportedly has six rows of stars alternating between rows of nine and eight. Heft, who died in 2009 at the age of 67, will be forever known as the student who designed the 50-star American flag.
