Sally Struthers Parents: Robert Alden Struthers & Margaret Caroline Jernes

Sally Struthers is the daughter of Robert Alden Struthers and Caroline Jernes. Her father abandoned the family when Struthers was approximately nine years old, after which she was raised by her single mother in the Concordia neighbourhood of northeast Portland.

Sally’s mother who supported herself and her two daughters working at Bonneville Power Administration, suffered from significant depression during Struthers’ childhood.

Struthers starred in the stage production of Annie at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and in the national tour of the production in the late 1990s. She has been a regular since the early 2000s at the Ogunquit Playhouse, in Ogunquit, Maine.

Struthers has been a spokesperson for International Correspondence School in television ads, pitching the famous line, “Do you want to make more money? Sure, we all do!