Sally Struthers family lived in Portland, Oregon. The Gilmore Girls actress was born to Robert Alden Struthers and Margaret Caroline. 

Sally was the youngest child of her parents. She grew up alongside an elder sister named Sue Struthers. 

Her father left the family when Sally was around 9/10 years old. After Robert moved out, the actress and her sister were raised by their single mother. 

Robert Alden Struthers

Sally Struthers dad Robert was a surgeon and a military veteran. He was born as the son of Gavin Hamilton Struthers and Marietta J Ainsworth on April 21, 1917. 

Robert initially served as a Captain of the US Army in the Second World War. After the war ended, Struthers received his medical license to practice in Oregon in 1948. 

Alden got married to Margaret Caroline Jernes in 1940. The couple had two daughters from the marriage, Sally and her sister Sue.

When Sally was around nine or ten years old, Robert walked out of the family. He eventually remarried a woman named Phyllis Parker on December 1964. 

Struthers passed away in a car accident on May 24, 1968. He was 51 years old at the time of his death. 

Margaret Caroline Jernes

Sally;s mother Margaret was born as the daughter of Johannes Jernes and Karen Selma Jernes on April 5, 1917. She grew up with three siblings named Karl Johan Jernes, Ida Jernes, and June Ethel Jernes. 

Margaret was a Federal Government employee for over 15 years; she worked as a contract auditor for the Bonneville Power Administrator. 

After her husband divorced Jernes, she took the responsibility of raising her two daughters alone. Despite suffering from depression, she did an excellent job of taking care of her two children. 

Margaret was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in the later years of her life. She eventually passed away at the age of 79 on December 22, 1996.