Meseke, Marilyn (1916–2001)

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Meseke, Marilyn (1916–2001)

Miss America. Name variations: Marilyn Hume; Marilyn Rogers. Born Oct 7, 1916, in Peru, Ohio; died Sept 12, 2001, in Mount Dora, FL; m. Stanley Hume (pilot in US Army Air Corps), Jan 1944 (died); m. Benjamin Rogers (pilot); children: (1st m.) 1 son.

Named Miss Ohio and Miss America (1938); had a modeling career.

See also Frank Deford, There She Is (Viking, 1971).

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