A local playwright, performer, teacher and accidental TV star has passed away.
According to her obituary, Karmo Sanders died peacefully at her home in Scarborough over the weekend.
The 74-year-old was best-known in Maine as simply “The Marden’s Lady.”
The character was on TV screens all over Maine for years until the salvage store chain ended the ad campaign in 2013.
Back then, she told CBS 13 she was using the character in her standup comedy act.
“We have opportunity in this lifetime to be happy or sad, it’s pretty simple,” Sanders said. “I chose happy.”
Sanders also wrote a musical and a play.
According to her obituary, most recently she’d been teaching playwriting and acting at the University of Southern Maine.
