Co-founder of the Jolly Rancher Candy Company Dies at 91

It is a sad day for anyone who grew up with Jolly Ranchers:

Dorothy Harmsen, who was a co-founder of the Jolly Rancher Candy Company, the maker of tangy, slowly dissolving bricks of fruit-flavored candy, and the owner of one of the nation’s largest private collections of art of the American West, died in Denver on Aug. 29. She was 91.

The cause was a heart attack, said her son, William D. Harmsen Jr.

Over a career in confections that spanned 50 years, Mrs. Harmsen and her late husband, William, created scores of original candies on their farm in Colorado, including chocolates, fruit chews, jelly beans and lollipops. More at New York Times