Newspaper clipping: Contestants at Greer

Title

Newspaper clipping: Contestants at Greer

Accession Number

2023.23.1

Accession Date

Feb. 15, 2023

Accession Creator

David Lovegrove

Depositor

Found in collection

Description

Article announcing that Mary Hopkins and Pamela Hendrix will compete in the Peach Festival beauty pageant

Date

June 17, 1961

Format

newspaper clipping

Storage Location

General Archive Box #5 Folder #5

Text

Contestants At Greer

GREER-These two girls will be seen in the beauty pageant of the fifth annual S. C. Peach Festival in Greer June 13-17. Mary Angeline Hopkins is the 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hopkins of Timmonsville. She has gray eyes, dark hair, is 5 feet and 2 1/4 inches tall, weighs 109 pounds and measures 36-22-36. Also competing for the title, "Queen of the Peaches" will be Pamela Hendrix, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hendrix of Duncan. "Pam" is 18 years old, has blonde hair, and is 5 feet and 4 1/2 inches tall, with measurements of 37-23-36.

Relation

Related sources are all from the 1961 Peach Festival and in the same archival folder

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