Annalee Skarin (aka Nansela Mathews, Christine Mercie, Nan Mathews)
b. 7 July 1899 - d. 17 January 1988
Mormon author Annalee Skarin was born Annalee Kohlhepp 7th July 1899 at American Falls, Idaho, in the United States. Her father, Frederick Kohlhepp, was a Jewish convert to Mormonism. Her mother, Mary Ella Hickman - daughter of notorious "Wild Bill" Hickman - was raised a Roman Catholic.
Annalee attended the University of Utah for a short time. She married three times. The first marriage was to Michael Gorman. They had a son named Avon. Her second marriage was to postman Hugo Avarell. They had a son and two daughters named Hugo, Hope, and Linda. Annalee's third marriage when she was 44 years old was to divorcee Reason Eugene Skarin, a policeman from Buffalo City, New York. They married in New York on 12th October 1943.
Annalee was Reason's second wife. His first wife was Anna Maybelle Glover from Canada and they married in Kenmore New York on the 21st September 1927. Reason and Anna Maybelle had one child born in February 1929. The child of Reason Skarin and Anna Maybelle, a daughter, was named Annalee. After their divorce, Anna Maybelle would later marry Harvey Perry in Buffalo, New York.
Research undertaken suggests that Annalee Skarin and her husband, Reason Skarin, may have carried out one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century. While claiming to have achieved everlasting life, it is evident that both Annalee Skarin and Reason Skarin are well and truly dead. This is substantiated by a visit to their graves.
Claiming to be an ascended or "translated" immortal being, Annalee made a concerted effort to hide the reality of her own death, and that of her husband's, from the public. There is no published obituary for Reason - he died in 1982. Her death in 1988 is registered under one of her many aliases "Nansela Mathews."
In immortality you take your body with you, you don't put it in the grave. Reason E. Skarin is buried in the military section of Oak Hill Cemetery, Red Bluff, California, and Analee Skarin is buried in the Sunset Hill Cemetery, Corning, Tehama County, California, in the United States. Anyone who is sufficiently interested in this can visit their burial sites.
Annalee Skarin survived her third husband, Reason, by several years. She was in ill-health for about three years prior to her demise, the last two of which were spent in Cedars convalesent hospital. She was treated by a medical doctor during that time. Reason Skarin, born 13th September 1898, died from age-related causes 28th March 1982.
If we have a spiritual dependency upon another human, we may devise some scenario wherein our immortal lives on. In physical immortality, it is essential to not make your own immortality dependent upon the success or failures of others. Master the laws of everlasting life. Don't get involved in personality cults. From their own points of view, the least interesting thing in an immortal's life is their own immortality. Someday physical immortality will be recognized as an aspect of normality, and it won't need to be talked about. Until then, be self-reliant and follow your own eternal nature.
Annalee Skarin, as her original publisher De Vorss and Co states, is also the true author of Sons of God written under the pseudonym Christine Mercie. It's a small book, written by herself that promotes the mythology of her and her husband's immortality.
They may look like nice ol' grandpa and grandma, but they are not Immortals.
True immortals are humble, of few words, and do not tout their own immortality.
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