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Jeannette Husted Rumsfeld
(1903–1988)
BIRTH
May 27, 1903
PLACE
Illinois
NAME
Jeannette Kearsley Husted
DEATH
May 3, 1988
PLACE
Unknown
FAMILY
HUSBAND
George Donald Rumsfeld
(1904–1974)
CHILDREN
Donald Rumsfeld
(1932-2021)
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Jeannette Husted Rumsfeld was the mother of U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld. She and George Donald Rumsfeld raised their family in the Chicago area.
EARLY LIFE
Jeannette Husted Rumsfeld worked as a substitute teacher and raised her two children in Winnetka, Illinois. Chicago magazine reported that she kept detailed scrapbooks documenting her son Donald's life and career.
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