Whatever Happened to Little Ann Marie Burr?

Keeping, and Then Losing, Her Faith

Beverly was living in one of her father’s cabins on Fox Island and working as a teacher, which she didn’t like. What she really wanted was to be a journalist. The Burrs’ first year of marriage was spent logging in Oregon. Then they settled down in her hometown of North Tacoma.

Exterior view to a church.

Source: Wikipedia

Don was a civilian employee at a National Guard base called Camp Murray. A Roman Catholic family, they were members of the local St. Patrick’s parish. Beverly later declared that her faith first wavered and then vanished at the same time her daughter did.

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