Robert Sadler, 69, sportswriter and promoter, active race walker
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Robert Sadler, 69, of East Falls, a sportswriter and promoter, died of
lung cancer Saturday at home.
For more than 10 years, until this summer, Mr. Sadler wrote a boxing
column for the weekly Philadelphia New Observer newspaper. He
contributed sports articles to several publications, including
Runner's World, Boxing Illustrated, and locally to the Germantown
Courier, the Catholic Standard and Times and the Jewish Exponent. He
also was a publicist for sports events. He was honored in 2003 at the
annual Salute to Philly Boxing Awards Dinner.
Mr. Sadler grew up in Upper Darby and Massachusetts. After earning a
bachelor's degree from Nichols College in Dudley, Mass., he was a
wholesale shoe salesman. After his first wife, Jane Brownlie Sadler,
died in 1970, he opened a shoe store in Cleveland so he could spend
more time with his two young children. He later owned shoe stores in
St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., where he started writing a column for
a local newspaper.
In 1975, he married Margaret Marinelli Sadler. They moved to
Philadelphia in 1990.
An active race walker, Mr. Sadler won the 3,000-meter race at the
Delaware County Senior Games four times and race-walked the
Philadelphia Distance Run five times. He enjoyed travel and walked
part of the Great Wall of China.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by daughter Lisa Chapman, son
Steven, and four grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. today at Falls Presbyterian Church,
Vaux Street and Midvale Avenue, Philadelphia. Friends may call from 9
a.m. Burial will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.