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- Niagara Gazette - 1/28/1957
WASHINGTON -An autopsy
was being held today in the
dcat of Paulina Longworth Sturm.
31, granddaughter of President
Theodore Roosevelt and daughter
of "Princess" Alice Roosevelt
Longworth.
Mrs. Sturm died Sunday at
Georgetown University Hospital an
hour after she was found uncon-
scious in her home by her 10-year-
old daughter Joanne. Police said
an empty pill bottle was found
nearby.
Coroner a. Magruder Macdon-
ald said he understood Mrs. Sturm
had been under the care of a
physician.
Mrs. Sturm was the widow of
Alexander McCormick Sturm, an
artist, writer and partner in
Sturm-Rugger & Co., manufacturer
of firearms. He died in 1951
after a long illness.
Mrs. Sturm's father was Nich-
olas Longworth, former Republi-
can speaker of the House who died
in 1931. Her mother, daughter of
Theodore Roosevelt, is a prom-
inent Washington socialite.
In her childhood, Mrs. Sturm
was known as the "Valentine
Baby" because she was born on
Valentine Day in Chicago in 1925.
Mrs. Sturm was a graduate of
the fashionable Medeira School in
Washington and attended Vassar
College.
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1925 - 1957 (31 years)