C. Sanders; Widow of KFC Founder
<i> Times wire services</i>
Claudia Sanders, 94, a restaurateur and the widow of fried chicken legend Col. Harland Sanders, died Dec. 31 in Shelbyville, Ky.
She met Senders in the 1930s while working as a waitress at his first restaurant in Corbin, Ky. By the time they married in 1949, Sanders had begun helping “the Colonel†build a fast-food empire.
By 1963, the couple had 600 chicken outlets. They were sold the next year to John Y. Brown, who later became governor of Kentucky. A restaurant she started, Claudia Sanders Dinner House, still operates.
Harland Sanders died in 1980.
