SAGINAW, Mich - Robert G. Heft, who is credited with designing and sewing the first 50-star American flag, has died. He was 67.
Wakeman Funeral Home says Heft died Saturday at a hospital in Saginaw. A cause of death wasn't immediately available.
Heft made the flag in 1958 as part of a high school history project in Lancaster, Ohio. He spent more than 12 hours sewing the design on his mother's Singer sewing machine. ...
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