CURB HER, BABY!
Ann Turner Cook, who has died aged 95, was up there with Queen Libby as one of the very few alive to be famous for 90+ years. In 1928, the fledging Gerber Products Company conducted a contest for an image of an infant to use as their logo, and the winning entry was a charcoal sketch of Cook drawn by her next-door neighbour. The image quickly became iconic and there was public speculation for decades that the Gerber Baby was a celebrity such as Humphrey Bogart (here’s looking at you as a kid?) or Liz Taylor. You could tell this was well before you could Google celeb DOBs as Taylor was born after the logo! Cook, by then a teacher, was publicly revealed to be the famed tot in the 70s. She spent her later years writing mystery novels and occasionally granting interviews to local press. Naked Florida Gravediggers gains from the face of baby food turning to worm food.
Ann Turner Cook
20 November 1926 – 3 June 2022, aged 95
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