How the Tragic Death of His Sister Pushed Bob Saget Into a Life of Charitable Work
Bob Sagetwas all about the jokes. But his family life was anything but funny. In 1985, his sister Andrea died of a brain aneurysm, and in 1994, he lost his other sister, Gay, to the autoimmune disease scleroderma. In an interesting twist, Saget had actually started work with the Scleroderma Research Foundation a few years prior to Gay’s diagnosis,he toldNIH Medline Plus Magazinein 2019. “I got a call from someone I did not know asking me to host a comedy fundraiser for a disease I knew very little about,” the actor,who died on Jan....