Jeraldine Saunders

Jeraldine Saunders (born Geraldine Loretta Glynn; September 3, 1923 – February 26, 2019) was an American television writer, columnist, model and lecturer. She was born in Los Angeles. Saunders was best known as the creator of "The Love Boat", an ABC Television series. She was the columnist of Omarr’s Astrological Forecast, a nationally syndicated horoscope column.
Saunders was involved in a homicide investigation in 1968, when she discovered her fiance, actor Albert Dekker dead in his Hollywood home. The death was ruled to be accidental. 
Saunders died from complications of kidney stone surgery on February 26, 2019 in Los Angeles, aged 96.