"I see a world without sickness, sorrow,
or mental disturbance in which
we are living in perfect balance,
abundance, health and harmony."
- Dr. Ann Wigmore

1909-25 BIRTH & CHILDHOOD

Born in Cropos, Lithuania on March 4, 1909. Two years later, her parents go to America. She is raised by her grandmother by whom she is taught the ways of natural healing. She survives many near-death episodes during World War I. Her grandmother prophesies to her that Ann has a mission in America to help suffering humanity. She works on a farm to raise money to come to America.

1925-60 MOVE TO AMERICA,
MARRIAGE & MOTHERHOOD

In 1925 at age 16, Ann Wigmore comes to America to join her family in Middleboro, Massachusetts. It is a difficult period of her life. She works hard and almost loses her legs in an accident. She runs away from home three times. In 1930 she marries and later gives birth to a daughter. Her marriage ends in 1955. Little by little, the vision of her mission takes form, but her health is very poor. She remembers what she learned from her grandmother and gradually rebuilds her health. She uses weeds and invents wheatgrass juicing as her healing garden for:- natural healing gangrene and cancer with alternative medicine.

1960-94 CREATION & DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIVING FOODS LIFESTYLE

For 35 years Ann Wigmore mobilizes all her energy to build a healthier world promoting natural healing. She opens the Hippocrates Health Institute (The Original Alternative Medicine Schools) in Boston in 1963 and the Ann Wigmore Foundation in Boston in 1985. She has a brilliant career lecturing, writing, and giving wheatgrass and natural healing demonstrations in over 35 countries. She dies accidentally due to smoke inhalation at the Ann Wigmore Foundation in Boston on February 16, 1994. Leaving a legacy for the Health Retreats model.

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