

In 1931 she left Heskett and went back to Seattle where she was forced to work all manner of jobs to support Joan and Anne, her two daughters since she did not have any contact with her husband after their divorce. With her husband Robert Eugene Heskett the two would live on the Olympic Peninsula at a chicken farm near Port Townsend. MacDonald would graduate from Roosevelt High School in 1924 and would get married three years later aged only twenty years. She was born in Boulder Colorado but her family moved to Capitol Hill in Seattle in 1918 before they settled in Roosevelt in 1922.

Betty MacDonald is a bestselling children’s books novelist born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard.
