Robert Heft was credited with designing and sewing the first American flag with 50 stars. He died on December 12, 2009 at the age of 67 at a hospital in Saginaw, Michigan.
Heft made the flag in 1958 as part of a high school history project while school student in Lancaster, Ohio. He spent more than 12 hours sewing the design on his mother's sewing machine.
He entered his design into a contest to determine the new flag design after the admission of Alaska and Hawaii into statehood. President Dwight Eisenhower chose Heft's design to replace the 48 star flag.
He spent his career as a professor at Northwest State Community College in Archbold, Ohio before returning to his hometown of Saginaw in recent years.
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