And the Winner Is…

Madison Magazine Memoir Contest Winner Ron Hoppmann was born on Madison’s east side in 1934. He attended Marquette Elementary School and East High School. Ron spent three years active duty in the Marine Corps and went to college in Colorado.

Ron says, “I write because I have no choice in the matter.”

Since retirement, he often writes with the Meadowood Life Story Writers, an outreach effort of the Madison School & Community Recreation (MSCR) Department. The memoir he plans to complete with me will be (in his words) “a humble jumble of scatter-brained writings” about his childhood as one of eleven children raised by a divorced mother during the Depression and World War II.

Now in retirement, Ron was the owner of Bord & Stol furniture in Madison. He is a father of three and grandfather of seven.

Ron’s writing has been published in two anthologies published by Meadowood Life Story Writers in 2011 and 2012 and in Julien’s Journal: The Dubuque Area Lifestyle Magazine in August 2011.

Photo: Ron Hoppmann in front of the family’s home at 1418 Northern Court on Madison’s East Side, about 1945.

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