Sanders lived out his final years at Blackwood Hall before his death in 1980 at the age of 94. Col. Harland Sanders married Claudia in 1949 and opened the Claudia Sanders Dinner House for his wife ...

Colonel Sanders wasn't just the face of KFC - he was the chef behind its beloved recipes. He took his food seriously, even despite corporate interference.

Colonel Sanders Once Conspired To Abscond His Own Children. Colonel Sanders may have had more careers than you would have ...

Lost in the hubbub, though, was that Colonel Sanders was real and built KFC with his own two greasy hands. Sanders sold the company in 1964, but for years afterwards, he would regret it.

Colonel Sanders sold his first franchise in 1952 — to Pete Harman of Salt Lake City, who became a co-founder, coined the name Kentucky Fried Chicken and spread it through Utah.

Colonel Sanders' daughter Margaret, who died in 2001, wrote a biography about her father in 1996 titled "The Colonel's Secret: 11 Herbs & a Spicy Daughter," in which she revealed her father's ...