Early Life
Annan was born Beulah May Sheriff in Owensboro, Kentucky, to John Sheriff and Mary Neel. Whilst living in Kentucky, she married her first husband; newspaper linotype operator Perry Stephens. They were divorced and she re-married in Louisville, Kentucky to Albert (Al) Annan, a car mechanic. Shortly afterwards the couple moved to Chicago. There Albert found work as a mechanic at a garage and Beulah decided she wanted to work as well, eventually becoming a bookkeeper at Tennant's Model laundry. At the laundry she met Harry Kalstedt and began an affair.
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