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Leona Pounds-Haggstrom

Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Leona (Heiman) Pounds-Haggstrom, 98, departed this life July 20, 2010. She was born in Beloit, Kansas on April 11, 1912, the day before the Titanic went down. Leona was a resident of Colorado Springs since 1939 and was the oldest girl of 11 children born to Anthony and Catherine (Salley) Heiman,...

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Tomorrow is our 11th year without you! You are so missed and so lovingly remembered. I still recall the unbridled joy in your laugh! Love you with all my heart! Your adoring granddaughter- Julie

Grammy, I will miss your smile.....I am so grateful to have known the woman you were and your joy for life, especially your laugh and the stories of your early days and how you met Grandpa. You are thought of everyday and I am so thankful for the memories and the times we spent together. Your strength, love and dedication to your family will always hold a special place in my heart. You can now rest in peace with those that have gone before you. I love you!

Aunt Leona was a special woman. I always looked forward to spending time with her. Her laugh was contagious. My Mom is her sister and I took delight in their loving bickering over the silliest of things. It was like they were young again when they got together. Some of my favorite childhood memories are of spending time in Colorado with Aunt Leona, Uncle Mil and Mark. It is of great comfort to know that they are all reunited now. But how we will miss our Aunt Leona! She was as...

Leona (Heiman) Pounds Haggstrom

Leona was my grandmother, and she was a joy to have in my life. She will be surely missed! I take peace in knowing that she is reunited with our loved ones who have passed before us Mark, Grandpa (Mil), Virgil, and many of her brothers and sisters who have passed through this world. Leona was our family's last tie to the generation who lived through WWII and the depression, She lived her life to the highest of moral standards, through difficult challenges she taught us all to work hard,...