After a host of media attention, including the Peabody Award-winning series by Geraldo Rivera, the institution was eventually closed by the state. Her second marriage was to L. E. Stone, a former pilot with an interest in real estate. Donna J. Stone maintained her charitable activities, expanding her endeavors to include the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse. The Stones also had one son and, due to L.E. Stone's business interests, the family eventually moved from New York to a suburb of Dallas. The Association for Retarded Children also moved their headquarters from New York to suburban Dallas, and Donna Stone remained a strong supporter. Several years later she established the Matthew J. Pascal Foundation, a private family foundation named after her older son. Poetry It was in Texas that Stone began writing in earnest. Although she dabbled in prose, her passion was poetry. Her early publications were in local newspapers and small periodicals. Later, her works appeared in poetry magazines and poetry society journals, some of them receiving honors and small awards. On her mother's 75th birthday, Stone published a poem for her in her local paper. The poem got picked up by the local's parent company, and was printed in dozens of newspapers. "Mother at 75" became Stone's most recognized poem to date. Wielder of Words: A Collection of Poems soon followed. According to the author's acknowledgments, the title was based upon a poem written as a birthday card for Stone by her younger son, who edited the book. Included in the collection were poems such as "Another Autumn", and "Remembering", and of "Mother at 75." Stone accepted no profits from the book, and donated copies to various schools, libraries, literacy programs, and poetry societies. One school reportedly used it as a textbook, and the American Poetry Society chose Wielder of Words as their 1991 Book of the Year. Final years The cardiac effects of her severe childhood illness began taking their toll, and Stone's health once again declined. Yet she continued to write, and during her final years composed some of her best-known poems including "Changing Seasons" and, perhaps her most famous and most personal, "Of Matt and Me". Donna J. Stone died of heart failure at her home in Texas. She was 61. In cooperation with American Mothers, Inc., Stone's children founded the Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards in her honor. Several writers