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Since 1945, thirteen women representing Allegany County have gone on to win the title of Miss Maryland:
Virginia Lee Van Sant (1945),
Carolyn Jean Dixon (1947),
Juanita Lookabaugh (1948),
Kathy Neff (1972),
Kristi Reindl (1973),
Lisa Marie Daskal (1980),
Rachel Ellsworth (2005),
Shana Powell (2007),
Louise Schlegel (2008),
Jade Kenny (2014)and Caitlyn Stupi (2019)
Kennedy Taylor (2023) and Bridget O’Brien (2024)
The image is of Jean Dixon, Juanita Lookabaugh, and Kathy Neff
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Joanna Guy, a graduate of Southern High School in Garrett County, was crowned Miss Maryland in June 2012. She is the second Miss Maryland from Garrett County, the first being Kimberly Ann Grimm Weimer in 1990.
The competitors in the 1948 Miss Cumberland pageant parade down Cumberland's North Centre Street. In the first automobile is Jean Dixon, Miss Maryland of 1947. Behind her rides Juanita Lookabaugh, the Miss Maryland of 1948. From the collection of Winnie Wilson in A Pictorial History- Allegany County by Lee G. Schwartz, Albert L. Feldstein, and Joan H. Baldwin, 1980. The photograph of Kathy Neff was taken in 2004 by Al Feldstein.