Woman turns late husband's hunting jacket into teddy bear

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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