Valerie Hunter-Gordon dies – invented Paddi, first disposable diaper [From the web]




LONDON, October 21, 2016-

CHANCES are you have never heard of her but chances also are that if you are a mother – and these days, a father – she will have changed your life.

A 94-year old Scottish mother of six, grandmother of 19 and great-grandmother of 17 called Valerie Hunter-Gordon has just died that would be unremarked by the wider world were it not for this. 


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