Pamela Anne Eldred (April 21, 1948 - July 12, 2022) was an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned

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1969 and later

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Early life and education

Eldred is from West Bloomfield and graduated from

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Pageantry

She was crowned

on September 6, 1969. A

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, Eldred performed a dance in the Miss America talent competition to music from ''Romeo and Juliet''. One of the five finalists Eldred defeated in the

pageant was singer and actress

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. She participated in the home-coming of

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along with Nancy Fleming Lange and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson, both former Miss Michigans who also became Miss America.Year in Review: Top 10 features and entertainment stories of 2008
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Personal life

After her year as Miss America 1970, she married Dr. Jules F. Levey and had a daughter, Hilary Levey (Friedman), a

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-educated sociologist. She remarried in 1998 to

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Norman Robbins, who is 29 years her senior. Eldred died in her native Michigan on July 12, 2022 at the age of 74.

References

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