Author Barbra Heavner
Barbra Heavner fell in love with books at an early age, writing her first novel when she was eleven. She hopes she's improved since then. Born in Dallas, Texas, her family moved to Amarillo and then to Kansas City, where her sister and two brothers were born. In 1940 they relocated to California. She had three ambitions in life, to be a published author, to be a dress designer, and have two boys and two girls. She studied costume design in California. When she was nineteen she met a sergeant at the Hollywood Palladium. Five weeks later she married him and had fifty-nine years good years with him. Their first home was in upstate Pennsylvania. She was a stay at home mom with their four boys. The two girls never materialized, but boys were fun. In Michigan, she had a local newspaper column. In Pennsylvania she wrote radio commercials. For thirty years she did custom dressmaking at home. She bought home knitting machines, and after retirement she and her husband and youngest son did Arts and Crafts shows with their dolls and machine knitted goods. Through it all her passion for writing never waned. She has moved twenty-two times, and had a fascinating life. At present she and her Downs son are living in Indiana close to son number three. She is firmly convinced that God has given her a perfect life and looks forward to writing for many years to come. Eighty-one, she says, is not yet old.
