My mother, Marie Hablitzel, was a second grade school teacher. Her students remember starting each school day with a drawing lesson. After she retired, we coauthored the Draw Write Now series.
Marie's Story
My mother, Marie Hablitzel, was a second grade school teacher. Her students remember starting each school day with a drawing lesson. After she retired, we coauthored the Draw Write Now series.
Marie enjoyed three-mile walks up until a few weeks before her death in 2007 at the age of 86. I was blessed to have the opportunity to work with her and am honored to continue her work.
— Kim Stitzer
My children are the youngest of her grandchildren. We lived a long distance from Marie, so in 1991 she mailed drawings and notes to my five year-old daughter so she could do the lessons like the older grandkids.