The founders of Auntie Anne’s, Anne and Jonas Beiler, are coming to the area for an event March 14 that will share the background of how their business was started. Through tragic life events that left Anne traumatized and in a deep depression and the near demise of their young family and marriage, attendees will get to hear their testimony. It was through this pain and eventual healing they made a decision to save their marriage and discovered their new purpose.
The events leading up to the start of the world’s largest pretzel franchise have led to work being done to produce a movie about this story of loss, heartache, discovery, forgiveness and eventual redemption. Anne and Jonas Beiler were born and raised in the Amish-Mennonite community of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania.
Their marriage was peaceful as they began to start a family together. Then their life took a tailspin after the accidental death of their 19-month-old daughter Angela Joy in 1975…