LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Margaret Sanders, the eldest daughter of Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders, died Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Fla. She was 91.

Sanders, who referred to herself as the "spicy daughter" in a book she wrote, corresponded with Albert Einstein about his theory of relativity and searched for the lost continent of Atlantis.

She sold cars in Florida. She worked as a Kentucky Fried Chicken waitress in Salt Lake City. She ran a body relaxation treatment business in Lexington. She worked in a gun plant and acted in Louisville. She also helped start an eye bank in New York City.

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Sanders sculpted many famous people. Her sculpture of her father overlooks his grave in Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery.

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