by Kevin HeatonPublish: Mar 04, 2025 Biographies & MemoirsChristian Nonfiction
Book Overview
In Honor of Women's History
On the day she was born, history had already determined her destiny. A destiny fraught with abandonment, want, servitude, and reward.
“OPAL: Spirit of a Woman,” is the story of Mary Opal Fetters/George; a courageous women who lost her mother to childbirth at the tender age of seve... n, was sold into servitude by a father who no longer wished to care for her...and forced into child labor in another state for many years. In spite of all the odds stacked against her—she championed a legacy of grace. This is her story.read more
BIOGRAPHY Kevin Heaton lives and writes in Yucca Valley, Ca. He is an avid runner, author, and retired state park ranger. His work has appeared in over 400 print and online journals including: Guernica, Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, The Adroit Journal, and Raleigh Review, (search: Kevin Heaton Poems) and has been selected as ... Best of the net. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and is listed as notable among published Kansas poets.
Released March of 2025: "OPAL: Spirit of a Woman," The true story of Opal Fetters/George. An amazing tale of abuse, faith, and survival set in Kansas and Oklahoma during the "Great Depression," and beyond.read more