Anne described a strange moment where she had spent weeks shopping for shoes, ribbons, hat, and fabrics to make an Easter outfit for Peggy's daughter.
She sewed all night before Easter morning and drove the beautiful outfit to Peggy's home in Beverly Hills, dragging Laurel and Suzanne out of bed before daybreak.
As she returned to the car, seeing her girls knowing they had no Easter outfits waiting for them and their hair all messy with sleep, Anne was heartbroken.
While in high school, Laurel lived for a period with her father, her half-brothers and half-sister in La Canada, California but the arrangement ended abruptly.
"I found metal in a junkyard and hammered it out on the back of an old frying pan", she stated during an interview with the Marin Independent Journal in 2005.
In addition to Rick Sara, she was survived by her daughter, Aarin; her son, Jay; her sisters, Suzanne Neilson and Jil Chandler; her half-sister Mary Ellen Piraino; her half-brothers William (Bill) Russell Harte, and Brian Lowell Harte; and two granddaughters, Soffiya and Karly.