Discovering YOU Magazine April 2026 Issue | Page 46

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waiting near the pearly gates.

Lastly, speaking of heaven, I lived in the Carolinas for four years. At a church I attended, a traveling evangelist shared with the congregation that he personally led Colonel Harland Sanders to Christ shortly before his death. He was saved that day.

Colonel Sanders passed away on December 16, 1980, at the age of 90.

Below is a link to the Sanders Café and Museum in Corbin, Kentucky—the 1940s

birthplace of where this chain began. (I have visited this location, and it makes for a nice rest stop near Interstate 75, Exit 29.) https://www.sanderscafe.com