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The Miss Oklahoma competition selects a winner to compete on behalf of Oklahoma in the Miss America pageant. Miss Oklahoma has won the Miss America crown on five occasions. Also, in the years when city representatives were common, Norma Smallwood won, competing as Miss Tulsa, giving the state of Oklahoma a total of six crow
The Miss Oklahoma USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Oklahoma in the Miss USA pageant. This pageant is directed by Vanbros and Associates, headquartered in Shawnee, Kansas .
Only Miss Congeniality winner to be also crowned Miss America [26] 1966: Sept. 11, 1965 Deborah Bryant [27] Kansas: Overland Park: 19 Preliminary Swimsuit: Dramatic interpretation, "The Miserable Miserliness of Midas Moneybags" 1967: Sept. 10, 1966 Jane Anne Jayroe [28] Oklahoma: Laverne: 19 Preliminary Talent: Vocal / Orchestral conducting, "1 ...
She had three top 20 hits in the United States in the early 1960s. She was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador for the Florida Citrus Commission from 1969 to 1980. From 1977 to 1980, Bryant was an outspoken Christian opponent of gay rights in the United States.
She was crowned Miss Oklahoma six years later and subsequently represented the state in the 1958 Miss America pageant, finishing third, per Edmond Live & Leisure.. Bryant's recording career took ...
Jane Anne Jayroe-Gamble (born October 30, 1946) is an American broadcaster, author, public official and former beauty queen from Laverne, Oklahoma, who was Miss Oklahoma in 1966 and Miss America in 1967. [1] Jayroe worked as an anchor in TV news in Oklahoma City and Dallas-Fort Worth broadcast media markets for 16 years.
Susan Carol Powell (born March 24, 1959) is an American actress, singer, and television personality.A native of Elk City, Oklahoma, Powell began her career as a successful beauty pageant contestant, winning the Miss Oklahoma pageant in 1980 and proceeded to the Miss America crown for the year 1981.
The singer and former beauty queen died at her home in Edmond, Oklahoma, after battling cancer. ... By the age of 18, she not only had a recording contract but was also crowned Miss Oklahoma in ...