Verna Sawyer-Carson, also known as Mother Sawyer, is the mother of Jedidiah Sawyer and Loretta Sawyer and is the grandmother of Heather Miller. Verna serves as the matriarch of the Sawyer family, and was portrayed by Marilyn Burns in Texas Chainsaw 3D and by Lili Taylor in Leatherface.
Biography
Verna grew up in the the Sawyer Clan, a family of cannibalistic serial killers and eventually became it‘s matriarch. She had several sons and at least one daughter, to an unknown father, or possibly father’s (it is possible that her children were the result of incest in the Sawyer family).
After her family was killed including her son‘s and beloved daughter, she started tracking down information the people involved with massacre which she found her daughter's infant daughter, being raised by Gavin and Arlene Miller.
She keeps tabs on her granddaughter until she was older. When Verna became sick, she started writing Heather a letter explaining her bloodline and her inheritance which includes the manison and her cousin Leatherface. She was buried next to her daughter.
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- It is possible Verna’s children are products of incest between her and other members of the Sawyer family, since she was believed to be Leatherface’s great-aunt in Texas Chainsaw 3D, but in Leatherface, she is confirmed to be his mother. Also her granddaughter Edith is believed to be Leatherface’s cousin, as Verna herself does confirm in the Texas Chainsaw 3D, however since Edith’s mother was actually Leatherface’s sister, that would make him her uncle.
- Marilyn Burns previously portrayed Sally Hardesty in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
- Angela Bettis was originally in talks to play Verna in Leatherface, before Lili Taylor was cast.[1]