Inga-Britt Söderberg (2 February 1935 – 15 February 2019) was a Finnish

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, and the 1955

Miss Finland Miss Suomi (Finnish language, Finnish for ''Miss Finland'') is a national beauty pageant in Finland. The pageant was founded in 1931, where the winners were sent to Miss Universe. History The Miss Suomi was held for the first time in 1931. B ...

and

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. In 1956, Söderberg married a Canadian

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, Donald D. Cliffe, and two years later the couple moved to Canada, where they had two daughters. Prior to her beauty pageant victories, Söderberg had worked as a post office clerk. Afterwards she began modelling, which continued until the early 1970s, as well as appearing in at least one film. Later still, she switched to

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, running her 400-sheep-farm in

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for 30 years from 1971 to 2001. She died in 2019 in a care home in

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, New Brunswick.

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Inga-Britt Söderberg obituary (reproduced)
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Söderberg, Inga-Britt Miss Finland winners Miss Europe winners Models from Helsinki Finnish emigrants to Canada 1955 births 2019 deaths