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Heitsch, Leona Mason was born on January 6, 1931 in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Russell Leonard and Margaret M. (Arnold) Mason.
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Leona Mason Heitsch
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Leona Mason Heitsch, American artist, writer. Recipient honorable mention Missouri Writers Week award for poetry, 1992, 94, grand prize Artists Embassy International, San Francisco, 1997, Editors Challenge award International Society Authors and Artists, Abilene, Texas, 1997, included in Memories and Memoirs, Anthology of Missouri authors, 2000; featured in Grandmother Earth IX, 2003, Grist, Missouri State Poetry Society, 2003.
Education
Bachelor in chemistry, University of Michigan, 1952.
Career
Educational assistant Special School District, St. Louis County, Missouri, 1969-1981. Commentator Station KUMR, Rolla, Missouri, since 1996.
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Secretary, activist Missouri Association Children with Learning Disabilities, St. Louis, 1973-1975. Fundraising, writing Friends of Foster-Dolbeer Farm, Walled Lake, Michigan, since 1996. Contributing poet Wisconsin Breastfeeding Coalition, Lac du Flambeau, since 1996.
Activist Poets Against the War, 2003. Member St. Louis Poetry Society, Rolla Area Writers Guild.
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Married Charles Weyand Heitsch, July 5, 1952. Children: Russell, Carrie, Grace, Charles, Irene.
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Recipient honorable mention Missouri Writers Week award for poetry, 1992, 94, grand prize Artists Embassy International, San Francisco, 1997, Editors Challenge award International Society Authors and Artists, Abilene, Texas, 1997, included in Memories and Memoirs, Anthology of Missouri authors, 2000. Featured in Grandmother Earth IX, 2003, Grist, Missouri State Poetry Society, 2003.Recipient honorable mention Missouri Writers Week award for poetry, 1992, 94, grand prize Artists Embassy International, San Francisco, 1997, Editors Challenge award International Society Authors and Artists, Abilene, Texas, 1997, included in Memories and Memoirs, Anthology of Missouri authors, 2000. Featured in Grandmother Earth IX, 2003, Grist, Missouri State Poetry Society, 2003.