Lois Eleanor Delander (February 14, 1911 – January 23, 1985) was
Miss America
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: ''Priva ...
in 1927.
Biography
Delander, a native of
Joliet, Illinois
Joliet ( ) is a city in Will County, Illinois, Will and Kendall County, Illinois, Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, located southwest of Chicago. It is the county seat of Will County, Illinois, Will County. It had a population of ...
and high school junior, aged 16, won the Miss America crown on her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary. Following the
1927 competition, the pageant would not held again until 1933.
She was one of the most famous models appearing in the
Gerlach Barklow Co. art calendars. A pastel of Lois Delander wearing a white bathing suit was artist
Adelaide Hiebel's most famous work.
Personal life
She married Ralph Lang, a stockbroker, and lived in
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore (Chicago), North Shore along Lake Michigan. A suburb of Chicago, Evanston is north of Chicago Loop, downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skok ...
with her three daughters, Diana, Linda, and Marsha. She died near
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...
in 1985.
References
*Russell Roberts, Richard Youmans, ''Down the Jersey Shore'', Rutgers University Press, 1993 , p. 89
External links
A pastel of Lois Delander wearing a white bathing suit by Adelaide Hiebel
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1911 births
1985 deaths
Miss America 1920s delegates
Miss America winners
People from Joliet, Illinois
20th-century American beauty pageant contestants
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