403:, who was born in Java, lived in New York city until her death on 30 July 2020; her eldest sister (Lonni) Charlotte Sanger Ward, died on 12 August 1955. Sanger and Riger divorced in 1981, and she remarried in 1984, to Peter L. Keys; they moved first to the Cotswolds in England where Sanger produced weekly US Football games for British television, she then returned to live in Tucson, Arizona. Before she died of cancer in 1993, Sanger moved back to
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