Lois Delander

Biography

Lois Eleanor Delander (February 14, 1911 – January 23, 1985) was Miss America in 1927.

== Biography == Delander, a native of Joliet, Illinois and high school junior, aged 16, won the Miss America crown on her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary. Following the 1927 competition, the pageant would not held again until 1933. She was one of the most famous models appearing in the Gerlach Barklow Co. art calendars. A pastel of Lois Delander wearing a white bathing suit was artist Adelaide Hiebel's most famous work.

== Personal life == She married Ralph Lang, a stockbroker, and lived in Evanston, Illinois with her three daughters, Diana, Linda, and Marsha. She died near Chicago in 1985.

== References ==

Russell Roberts, Richard Youmans, Down the Jersey Shore, Rutgers University Press, 1993 ISBN 0-8135-1996-9, p. 89

== External links ==

A pastel of Lois Delander wearing a white bathing suit, by Adelaide Hiebel "America's Fairest Maid" (1927), British Pathé on YouTube