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FILE – In this Sept. 9, 1944, file photo, Venus Ramey, selected to represent the District of Columbia in the Miss America pageant as Miss Washington, D.C., performs in the talent show part of the competition before she was crowned that year's Miss America pageant winner in Atlantic City, N.J. Ramey, the first red-haired Miss America, died Saturday, June 17, 2017, according to the Morris & Hislope Funeral Home in Science Hill, Ky. She was 92. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE – In this Aug. 19, 1944, file photo, Venus Ramey, 19, after she was selected to represent the District of Columbia in the Miss America pageant as Miss Washington, D.C., poses with her crown, bouquet of roses and sash in Washington. Ramey, the first red-haired Miss America, died Saturday, June 17, 2017, according to the Morris & Hislope Funeral Home in Science Hill, Ky. She was 92. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs, File)
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FILE – In this Oct. 18, 1944, file photo, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, left, buys a $100 war bond from Venus Ramey, of Washington, D.C., crowned winner of the Miss America pageant of 1944, at the White House in Washington. Ramey, the first red-haired Miss America, died Saturday, June 17, 2017, according to the Morris & Hislope Funeral Home in Science Hill, Ky. She was 92. (AP Photo/Herbert White, File)
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FILE – In this April 17, 2007, file photo, Venus Ramey, 82, winner of the Miss America pageant in 1944 as the contestant representing Washington, D.C., walks with her dogs near her property in Waynesburg, Ky. Ramey, the first red-haired Miss America, died Saturday, June 17, 2017, according to the Morris & Hislope Funeral Home in Science Hill, Ky. She was 92. (George Lewis/The Interior Journal via AP, File)
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FILE – In this April 17, 2007 file photo, Venus Ramey, 82, winner of the Miss America pageant in 1944 as the contestant representing Washington, D.C., poses for a photograph near her home in Waynesburg, Ky. Ramey, the first red-haired Miss America, died Saturday, June 17, 2017, according to the Morris & Hislope Funeral Home in Science Hill, Ky. She was 92. (George Lewis/The Interior Journal via AP, File)
