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Betbeze, Yolande, 1928-2016

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Personal name headingBetbeze, Yolande, 1928-2016
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Variant(s)Fox, Yolande Betbeze, 1928-2016
Biography/History noteYolande Betbeze Fox (1928, Mobile, Alabama-2016, Washington, D.C.), Miss America 1951.
Birth date1928-11-29
Death date2016-02-22
Place of birthMobile (Ala.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationMiss America Pageant
Profession or occupationBeauty contestants
Found inPhotograph: Miss America 1951 visits Matthew Connelly, Truman Library, Sept. 18, 1950: (features Yolande Betbeze, Miss America, 1951)
Miss America WWW site, viewed June 3, 2014 (Yolande Betbeze, Mobile, Alabama; Miss America 1951)
Wikipedia.org, June 3, 2014 (Yolande Betbeze Fox; b. 1929, Mobile, Ala.; Miss America 1951)
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New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 26, 2016 (in obituary published Feb. 25: Yolande Betbeze Fox; b. Yolande Betbeze, Nov. 29, 1928, Mobile, Ala.; m. Matthew Fox; d. Monday [Feb. 22, 2016], Washington, aged 87; convent-educated Alabamian who defied convention, and set new standards, by refusing to tour the country as Miss America of 1951 in revealing bathing suits)