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.
