found: Her Secret ceremonies, 1993:CIP t.p. (Deborah Laake) pub. info. (editor of New Times magazine chain; lives in Phoenix)
found: The John Whitmer Historical Association journal, 1997:volume 17, page 95-101 (Deborah Laake; Mormon feminist; excommunicated from the Mormon Church; family name was Legler; born 19 April 1952 in Phoenix, Arizona; daughter of Thomas LeRoy Legler and Lorine Prunelda; family moved to Florida in the late 1960s, settling near St. Petersburg where Deborah graduated from Largo High School in 1970; she entered Brigham Young University in 1970 and married Monty Brown in May 1972, moving to Salt Lake City; the marriage ended in divorce and Deborah moved to Phoenix in the fall of 1973 and resumed her education at Arizona State University; she moved back to Salt Lake City two years later and earned a BA degree in English from the University of Utah; she married Lowell Bateman in 1976; was the managing editor of Utah Holiday Magazine; in 1982 she returned to Phoenix to be a writer and editor of New Times magazine; she married for a third time in the mid-1980s but like her two previous marriages it ended in divorce; she legally changed her surname to Laake in the 1990s; in 1994 she resigned from New Times and moved to South Carolina to become a free-lance writer)
found: Wikipedia, viewed October 22, 2018(Deborah Laake; Deborah Laake (1952-February 6, 2000) was a columnist at the Dallas Morning News in the 1980s and later a staff writer, columnist, editor, and executive at the Phoenix New Times; she was famous for her 1993 book entitled Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond; she died in Charleston, South Carolina)
