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 Ann Wigmore

langen, arriving at Ellis Island on June 16, 1913. Af-

ter World War I, Anna Marie, then 13, and her brother,
Mykola, age 15, (both surnames erroneously entered on
the ship’s passenger log as “Varapickis”) accompanied by
an uncle, arrived at Ellis Island on December 9, 1922, on
the USS America, to join their parents and younger sis-
ter Helen, born February 19, 1921, in Middleboro. The
1930 Federal Census found Anna Marie living in Bristol,
Massachusetts, and working as a hospital maid under the
name of Anna Warap.

2 Personal life

On December 25, 1930, Anna Marie (again under the

name "Warap" per wedding coverage Stoughton News-
Sentinel, 1 Jan 1931) married Everett Arnold Wigmore
(1907-1969), of Stoughton, Massachusetts, where they
lived during their marriage.[3] Her husband was in the
Ann Wigmore family stone masonry business. A daughter, Wilma Edith
Wigmore, was born on July 9, 1941.[3] On January 12,
[4]
Ann Wigmore (1909 – 1994) was a Lithuanian– 1942, Wigmore became a United States citizen. The
American "holistic health" practitioner, nutritionist, Wigmores divorced sometime in the 1950s-60s.
whole foods advocate, author, and doctor of Divinity.
Wigmore wrote several books on her theories and lec-
tured widely to promote her practices.
On February 16, 1994, Wigmore died of smoke inhala-
tion from a fire that destroyed the Boston site of the orig-
3 Career
inal Hippocrates Health Institute.
Today, her methods are still being promoted in Aguada, In 1968, Ann Wigmore co-founded the Hippocrates
Puerto Rico at the Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute, Health Institute,[5] a health resort in the United States,
in Florida at the Hippocrates Health Institute under the with Viktoras Kulvinskas.[6] Known as “the mother of
leadership of Dr. Brian Clement, and in various other living foods”, she was an early pioneer in the use of
"alternative medicine" resorts. wheatgrass juice and living foods for detoxifying and
healing the body, mind, and spirit.[7]
In her autobiography, Why suffer?: How I overcame ill-
1 Early life ness & pain naturally, Wigmore recounts observing her
grandmother using herbs and natural remedies as a child
[8]
Wigmore was born Anna Marie Warapicki in Lithuania in Lithuania.
on March 4, 1909 to Antanas (1877-1959) and Anna She was sued by the Massachusetts Attorney-General’s
(1882-?) Warapicki. Antanas emigrated to America department in 1988 for publishing pamphlets falsely
in 1908, settling in Middleboro, Massachusetts, where claiming to offer an AIDS cure,[9] but acquitted under the
he first worked as a laborer in a shoe manufacturing First Amendment as the claims were deemed not to be not
company,[1] then later as a truck driver for a bakery[2] commercial claims made in trade. She was, however, or-
during Wigmore’s American teen-age years. Anna fol- dered not to misrepresent herself as a doctor qualified to
lowed her husband five years later, aboard the ship Er- treat illness or disease.[10]

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4 Death
Wigmore died in Boston on February 16, 1994, of smoke
inhalation from a fire at the Ann Wigmore Foundation.[11]
At the time of her death, the Institute was called the Ann
Wigmore Foundation. Brian Clement owned the Hip-
pocrates Health Institute next door, which he relocated
from Boston to West Palm Beach, Florida.

5 References
[1] 1920 Fed Census/1924 & 1925 Middleboro city directo-
ries

[2] 1930 Federal Census

[3] Wigmore’s sworn Petition for Naturalization No. 230018,

executed by her on 12/10/1941, on file with the National
Archives & Records Administration (NARA) Waltham,
Massachusetts.

[4] Wigmore’s Oath of Allegiance/Citizenship Granted dated

l/12/1942, on file with NARA, Waltham, Massachusetts.

[5] Hillary Ferrara, “Raw energy; Adherents to the uncooked

food diet say they've never felt better.” Sarasota Herald
Tribune; September 04, 2002

[6] James F. Scheer, “Green foods grow up” Better Nutrition;

June 1, 1996

[7] “Wheatgrass therapy”. NCAHF Newsletter; September 1,

1994

[8] Joe Schwarcz, “Wanted: enzymes--dead or alive?" Chem-

fusion, Canadian Chemical News; Monday, March 1,
2004

[9] “State sues to stop woman offering AIDS cure”. Boston

Globe. January 20, 1988. Retrieved July 2, 2015.

[10] “Judge says woman can claim AIDS cure”. Boston Globe.
February 23, 1988. Retrieved July 2, 2015.

[11] “Holistic health pioneer dies at 84 in fire at her Back Bay

mansion” Boston Globe, February 17, 1994.

6 External links
• Ann Wigmore Institute

• Hippocrates Health Institute

• OL1190126A Wigmore’s publications
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