AKA: Nan Mathews
Annalee was the ninth child of Frederick John Kohlhepp and Mary Ella Hickman. Her father, a Jewish convert to Mormonism, died when Annalee was nineteen. She was the grand-daughter of William Adams Hickman.
Her first marriage to William Gorman ended in annulment. She had a male child who died at nine months. After the marriage ended she served a mission in California where she met Reason Skarin - her true love. However, they were not to marry for another twenty-one years. Annalee was to express that it was the forces of darkness that had kept them apart. She lived with him in her heart, and he, with a tiny photo of her on his mantelpiece.
After her mission she wed Hugo Avarell in 1922 and had another son, who died at birth, and two daughters - Linda Moat and Hope A. Hilton. It was an unhappy marriage that lasted until 1943. When her daughters were teenagers Annalee left for Buffalo, New York, and married the real love of her life. Reason Skarin was a convert from her California LDS Mission.
It appears that Annalee Skarin went to great lengths to keep her whereabouts hidden, both in life and death, or so her eldest daughter Hope Hilton believes. Hope and her husband searched diligently for more than thirty years to find her mother - the last time Hope saw Annalee was in May 1952 in Chicago. At that time Annalee was on her way to Salt Lake City. Because of her teachings, many of which were printed in "Ye Are Gods," in June 1952 she would be excommunicated from the LDS Church - two weeks later however she would claim to have been "translated".(One follower has noted)
"In June 1952, she ascended her physical body into light. She returned with her husband Reason (whom she helped also ascend) to teach and write an additional seven books... She is no longer in a continuous physical form."
Additional books: Secrets of Eternity, Temple of God, Beyond Mortal Boundaries, To God the Glory, Man Triumphant, The Book of Books and Sons of God.
Since their marriage Annalee and Reason lived in many places and under numerous aliases to keep their identities hidden. Reason quit his job as a police officer a year before he was due to receive a pension. The latter years of both their lives are reported to have been spent in poverty. She suffered from atherosclerotic heart disease for three years (a common complaint of old age), and spent two years of her life in a wheel-chair, before dying in a Californian hospital from pulmonary edema and respiratory failure. In the last years of Annalee's life the State of California was paying for all of her needs. When Annalee died she left a $1400 debt owed to the State that was paid by her landlady.
Her gravestone at the Sunset Hill Cemetery, Corning, California, reads:
"Nan Mathews also known as Analee Skarin
who visited on earth from 1899 to 1988
Gone to skip rope with a rainbow along the milkyway."
Her funeral, held on 20 January, was attended by six people. Paid for by her landlady - Annalee had told her that she had no family.
Annalee was posthumously re-baptized into the LDS Church on June 15, 1995. Her temple blessings were restored five days later.
Annalee was the ninth child of Frederick John Kohlhepp and Mary Ella Hickman. Her father, a Jewish convert to Mormonism, died when Annalee was nineteen. She was the grand-daughter of William Adams Hickman.
Her first marriage to William Gorman ended in annulment. She had a male child who died at nine months. After the marriage ended she served a mission in California where she met Reason Skarin - her true love. However, they were not to marry for another twenty-one years. Annalee was to express that it was the forces of darkness that had kept them apart. She lived with him in her heart, and he, with a tiny photo of her on his mantelpiece.
After her mission she wed Hugo Avarell in 1922 and had another son, who died at birth, and two daughters - Linda Moat and Hope A. Hilton. It was an unhappy marriage that lasted until 1943. When her daughters were teenagers Annalee left for Buffalo, New York, and married the real love of her life. Reason Skarin was a convert from her California LDS Mission.
It appears that Annalee Skarin went to great lengths to keep her whereabouts hidden, both in life and death, or so her eldest daughter Hope Hilton believes. Hope and her husband searched diligently for more than thirty years to find her mother - the last time Hope saw Annalee was in May 1952 in Chicago. At that time Annalee was on her way to Salt Lake City. Because of her teachings, many of which were printed in "Ye Are Gods," in June 1952 she would be excommunicated from the LDS Church - two weeks later however she would claim to have been "translated".(One follower has noted)
"In June 1952, she ascended her physical body into light. She returned with her husband Reason (whom she helped also ascend) to teach and write an additional seven books... She is no longer in a continuous physical form."
Additional books: Secrets of Eternity, Temple of God, Beyond Mortal Boundaries, To God the Glory, Man Triumphant, The Book of Books and Sons of God.
Since their marriage Annalee and Reason lived in many places and under numerous aliases to keep their identities hidden. Reason quit his job as a police officer a year before he was due to receive a pension. The latter years of both their lives are reported to have been spent in poverty. She suffered from atherosclerotic heart disease for three years (a common complaint of old age), and spent two years of her life in a wheel-chair, before dying in a Californian hospital from pulmonary edema and respiratory failure. In the last years of Annalee's life the State of California was paying for all of her needs. When Annalee died she left a $1400 debt owed to the State that was paid by her landlady.
Her gravestone at the Sunset Hill Cemetery, Corning, California, reads:
"Nan Mathews also known as Analee Skarin
who visited on earth from 1899 to 1988
Gone to skip rope with a rainbow along the milkyway."
Her funeral, held on 20 January, was attended by six people. Paid for by her landlady - Annalee had told her that she had no family.
Annalee was posthumously re-baptized into the LDS Church on June 15, 1995. Her temple blessings were restored five days later.
AKA: Nan Mathews
Annalee was the ninth child of Frederick John Kohlhepp and Mary Ella Hickman. Her father, a Jewish convert to Mormonism, died when Annalee was nineteen. She was the grand-daughter of William Adams Hickman.
Her first marriage to William Gorman ended in annulment. She had a male child who died at nine months. After the marriage ended she served a mission in California where she met Reason Skarin - her true love. However, they were not to marry for another twenty-one years. Annalee was to express that it was the forces of darkness that had kept them apart. She lived with him in her heart, and he, with a tiny photo of her on his mantelpiece.
After her mission she wed Hugo Avarell in 1922 and had another son, who died at birth, and two daughters - Linda Moat and Hope A. Hilton. It was an unhappy marriage that lasted until 1943. When her daughters were teenagers Annalee left for Buffalo, New York, and married the real love of her life. Reason Skarin was a convert from her California LDS Mission.
It appears that Annalee Skarin went to great lengths to keep her whereabouts hidden, both in life and death, or so her eldest daughter Hope Hilton believes. Hope and her husband searched diligently for more than thirty years to find her mother - the last time Hope saw Annalee was in May 1952 in Chicago. At that time Annalee was on her way to Salt Lake City. Because of her teachings, many of which were printed in "Ye Are Gods," in June 1952 she would be excommunicated from the LDS Church - two weeks later however she would claim to have been "translated".(One follower has noted)
"In June 1952, she ascended her physical body into light. She returned with her husband Reason (whom she helped also ascend) to teach and write an additional seven books... She is no longer in a continuous physical form."
Additional books: Secrets of Eternity, Temple of God, Beyond Mortal Boundaries, To God the Glory, Man Triumphant, The Book of Books and Sons of God.
Since their marriage Annalee and Reason lived in many places and under numerous aliases to keep their identities hidden. Reason quit his job as a police officer a year before he was due to receive a pension. The latter years of both their lives are reported to have been spent in poverty. She suffered from atherosclerotic heart disease for three years (a common complaint of old age), and spent two years of her life in a wheel-chair, before dying in a Californian hospital from pulmonary edema and respiratory failure. In the last years of Annalee's life the State of California was paying for all of her needs. When Annalee died she left a $1400 debt owed to the State that was paid by her landlady.
Her gravestone at the Sunset Hill Cemetery, Corning, California, reads:
"Nan Mathews also known as Analee Skarin
who visited on earth from 1899 to 1988
Gone to skip rope with a rainbow along the milkyway."
Her funeral, held on 20 January, was attended by six people. Paid for by her landlady - Annalee had told her that she had no family.
Annalee was posthumously re-baptized into the LDS Church on June 15, 1995. Her temple blessings were restored five days later.
Annalee was the ninth child of Frederick John Kohlhepp and Mary Ella Hickman. Her father, a Jewish convert to Mormonism, died when Annalee was nineteen. She was the grand-daughter of William Adams Hickman.
Her first marriage to William Gorman ended in annulment. She had a male child who died at nine months. After the marriage ended she served a mission in California where she met Reason Skarin - her true love. However, they were not to marry for another twenty-one years. Annalee was to express that it was the forces of darkness that had kept them apart. She lived with him in her heart, and he, with a tiny photo of her on his mantelpiece.
After her mission she wed Hugo Avarell in 1922 and had another son, who died at birth, and two daughters - Linda Moat and Hope A. Hilton. It was an unhappy marriage that lasted until 1943. When her daughters were teenagers Annalee left for Buffalo, New York, and married the real love of her life. Reason Skarin was a convert from her California LDS Mission.
It appears that Annalee Skarin went to great lengths to keep her whereabouts hidden, both in life and death, or so her eldest daughter Hope Hilton believes. Hope and her husband searched diligently for more than thirty years to find her mother - the last time Hope saw Annalee was in May 1952 in Chicago. At that time Annalee was on her way to Salt Lake City. Because of her teachings, many of which were printed in "Ye Are Gods," in June 1952 she would be excommunicated from the LDS Church - two weeks later however she would claim to have been "translated".(One follower has noted)
"In June 1952, she ascended her physical body into light. She returned with her husband Reason (whom she helped also ascend) to teach and write an additional seven books... She is no longer in a continuous physical form."
Additional books: Secrets of Eternity, Temple of God, Beyond Mortal Boundaries, To God the Glory, Man Triumphant, The Book of Books and Sons of God.
Since their marriage Annalee and Reason lived in many places and under numerous aliases to keep their identities hidden. Reason quit his job as a police officer a year before he was due to receive a pension. The latter years of both their lives are reported to have been spent in poverty. She suffered from atherosclerotic heart disease for three years (a common complaint of old age), and spent two years of her life in a wheel-chair, before dying in a Californian hospital from pulmonary edema and respiratory failure. In the last years of Annalee's life the State of California was paying for all of her needs. When Annalee died she left a $1400 debt owed to the State that was paid by her landlady.
Her gravestone at the Sunset Hill Cemetery, Corning, California, reads:
"Nan Mathews also known as Analee Skarin
who visited on earth from 1899 to 1988
Gone to skip rope with a rainbow along the milkyway."
Her funeral, held on 20 January, was attended by six people. Paid for by her landlady - Annalee had told her that she had no family.
Annalee was posthumously re-baptized into the LDS Church on June 15, 1995. Her temple blessings were restored five days later.
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