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ashling

(25,771 posts) Wed Dec 10, 2014, 07:55 PM Dec 2014

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Former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley Dies at 77

Actress, TV personality and former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley, who was crowned with the beauty pageant title in 1959, died at her home in Beverly Hills, California today after a battle with breast cancer. She was 757.

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Former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley Dies at 77 (Original Post) ashling Dec 2014 OP

Pretty hot for a dame 7 centuries old... Aristus Dec 2014 #1

She wasn't a dame. She was a Boeing. valerief Dec 2014 #2

RIP... Tom_Foolery Dec 2014 #3

Ohhh... frogmarch Dec 2014 #4

Aristus

(66,403 posts)

1. Pretty hot for a dame 7 centuries old...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 08:00 PM

Dec 2014

valerief

(53,235 posts)

2. She wasn't a dame. She was a Boeing.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 08:09 PM

Dec 2014

Tom_Foolery

(4,691 posts)

3. RIP...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:14 PM

Dec 2014

frogmarch

(12,154 posts)

4. Ohhh...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:24 PM

Dec 2014

I've never idolized beauty contest winners, but somehow she always seemed different to me, and I liked her.

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She was active in many charitable causes and was awarded the Outstanding Young Woman of the Year Award in 1966 by Lady Bird Johnson.

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