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  Mariann Edgar was born in 1959 in Summit, New Jersey, to a Swedish-American mother, Ann Björkman, and an American father, William Edgar. She grew up in the Flanders section of Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, and lived with her father for a time in Colorado, following her parents' divorce, before returning to New Jersey and graduating from West Morris Mount Olive High School.
  
  She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Rochester in 1982, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, magna cum laude. She received her Master of Divinity (1989) and Doctor of Ministry (2008) degrees from the Virginia Theological Seminary.
  
  Mariann Edgar married Paul Budde in 1986, upon which she took the name Mariann Edgar Budde. They have two sons.
  
  Mariann Edgar was born in 1959 in Summit, New Jersey, to a Swedish-American mother, Ann Björkman, and an American father, William Edgar. She grew up in the Flanders section of Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, and lived with her father for a time in Colorado, following her parents' divorce, before returning to New Jersey and graduating from West Morris Mount Olive High School.
  
  She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Rochester in 1982, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, magna cum laude. She received her Master of Divinity (1989) and Doctor of Ministry (2008) degrees from the Virginia Theological Seminary.
  
  Mariann Edgar married Paul Budde in 1986, upon which she took the name Mariann Edgar Budde. They have two sons.