Former Rodale CEO Ardath Harter Rodale Dies At 81

Ardath Harter Rodale, the former chairman and CEO of the family-owned magazine publisher Rodale Inc., died today at age 81.

Rodale was the mother of the company’s current CEO and chairman, Maria Rodale, and the wife of another former CEO, Bob Rodale. “We are very sad to say goodbye to an amazing woman, and more importantly, to our mother and the grandmother to our children. She will be very missed,” Maria Rodale said in a statement released by the company today.

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