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Annalee Skarin
American writer
Annalee Skarin (born Annalee Kohlepp: July 7, 1899 – Transfigured 1952), was an American Latter-day Saint writer of mysticism and New Age literature. Her 1948 book Ye Are Gods was popular among some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in Utah, but leaders of the Church felt it had serious doctrinal flaws and her refusal to renounce the principles taught in the book led to her excommunication.[1] The underlying theme in all of her writings was a desire to understand the deeper meaning behind scripture. She wrote: "There was just that intense feeling that something was required of us and we had to find out what it was."[2] Skarin was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who served as a missionary in California, and later was a ward Relief Society president. As of 2014, Ye Are Gods was in its 18th printing, though her later books were more popular among non-Latter-day Saints in the New Age movement. She accepted no royalties, and it remains unclear who, if anyone, profited from her many successful books.[1]
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Her daughter Hope Hilton along with husband Lynn Hilton were active participants in her excommunication. In a letter published in Sunstone magazine in the year 1991. She stated. "If the mortal remains of the Skarins are ever discovered, only then will the mystery surrounding their 1975 disappearance ever be resolved".
The LDS Church continues to believe they are dead and buried in Sunset Cemetery Corning California since 1988. Even though the Cemetery records have neither Annalee's or Reasons buriel or plot in their listings.
It is believed the LDS Church was mis informed by an investigator that supplied a dubious death certificate on Annalee. None exists for Reason Skarin.