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Normal baby born to handicapped mother in Springfield
Mrs Betty Lampe Hagglund born without feet overcomes handicap to raise Valerie a normal child. Valerie’s birth in a Springfield hospital highlights her mother later aided by sympathetic readers with artificial feet enabling walking and dancing. Hagglund married William Hagglund of Chicago after the case drew national attention.
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Betty Lampe Hagglund
Valerie
Springfield
Ill
Hagglund
William Hagglund
Chicago