Lois Delander Explained

Lois E. Delander
Birth Name:	Lois Eleanor Delander
Birth Date:	14 March 1911
Birth Place:	Joliet, Illinois
Death Place:	Chicago, Illinois
Successor:	Marian Bergeron
Miss America 1927
Spouse:	Ralph Lang
Children:	3

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.^[1] A pastel of Lois Delander wearing a white bathing suit was artist Adelaide Hiebel's most famous work.^[2]

Personal life

She married Ralph Lang, a stockbroker, and lived in Evanston, Illinois with her three daughters, Diana, Linda, and Marsha.^[3] She died near Chicago in 1985.^[4]

References

1. News: Sorensen. Karen. Old Calendars Now Now Coveted by Collectors, Plainfield Historians Say. Plainfield Patch. Plainfield, IL. 2013-06-07. 2012-02-22.
2. Web site: Adelaide Hiebel. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20040825004614/http://www.cityofjoliet.com/halloffame/artists/adelaidehiebel.htm. 2004-08-25. City of Joliet. 2013-06-07.
3. Web site: All the Miss Americas, Then and Now . LIFE Magazine . September 28, 1959 . Time Inc. . 89.
4. Web site: Miss America History 1927 . 2006-12-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060923040046/http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1920/1927.asp . 2006-09-23 . dead .

• Russell Roberts, Richard Youmans, Down the Jersey Shore, Rutgers University Press, 1993, p. 89

External links

• A pastel of Lois Delander wearing a white bathing suit, by Adelaide Hiebel