Ann Ree Colton
American writer
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Ann Ree Colton (August 17, 1898 – June 28, 1984) was an American religious figure, co-founder of the Ann Ree Colton Foundation of Niscience, a New Age religious sect described as a cult by its former adherents.[1][2]
August 17, 1898
Ann Ree Colton | |
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| Born | Ann Ree Whitaker August 17, 1898 Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | June 28, 1984 (aged 85) Glendale, California, U.S. |
Biography
Colton was born in Georgia as Ann Ree Whitaker, the daughter of Emory Achilles Whitaker and Harriet Elizabeth Mitchell. Colton was billed as a "mother-teacher" when she was head of the First Church of Corinthian Brotherhood in Florida in the 1930s and 1940s.[3][4] She was a minister of the Chapel of Jesus Ethic,[5] and with her husband Jonathan Murro founded Niscience in 1953.[1] She published an autobiography, Prophet of the Archangels, recommending meditation and healing techniques, and "dimensional contemplation."[6]
Colton was married several times, first to Alexander Taranko in 1916; they had two daughters, Harriette and Ann.[7] Her usual surname came from a husband named Albert Leo Colton, whom she married in 1936.[8] She married Rudolph Blumberg in 1939;[9] they divorced in 1949.[10] She was married to Llewis Trubey when she spoke at an events in California in the early 1950s.[11][12] She married her last husband, Jonathan Murro, in California in 1953.[13] Murro continued to run their foundation after Colton's death in 1984,[1] until his death by suicide in 1991.[2]