Article: Dolls played a vital role in life of Tucson woman.

Byline: Kimberly Matas

Mar. 26--Greta Mae Hedgcock didn't have much growing up in Michigan.

"I didn't have many dolls as a little girl because during the Depression kids had to do without toys," she said in a 1979 interview with the Arizona Daily Star. So Hedgcock started making dolls from corn silk and clothespins. It's a hobby she never outgrew. As an adult living in the Old Pueblo, Hedgcock made cloth dolls and porcelains. She opened Greta's Doll Nook in 1979 and started the Tucson Doll Guild in the early 1980s. "She always wanted to have a little doll shop and then it branched out into having kilns and pouring porcelain molds," said ...

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