What is Venus Ramey?
[[File:VenusRamey.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ramey in 2007]] '''Venus Ramey''' (September 26, 1924 – June 17, 2017) was an American beauty pageant contest, and later an activist. She won the [[Miss America]] competition in 1944. She was born in [[Ashland, Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.johnsoncountykyhistory.com/people/RS.html|title=Johnson County History... and That's a Fact|access-date=2007-04-20|archive-date=2017-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318175714/http://www.johnsoncountykyhistory.com/people/RS.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ramey left Kentucky to work for the war effort in [[Washington, D.C.]], and won the [[Miss District of Columbia]] pageant and then became [[Miss America]] in 1944. She was the first red-haired contestant to win the title.<ref name=missamerica>{{cite web|url=http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1940/1944.aspx|title=Miss America History 1944|access-date=2006-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923040646/http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1940/1944.aspx|archive-date=2006-09-23}}</ref> Ramey died on June 17, 2017 in [[Science Hill, Kentucky]] at the age of 92.<ref>[https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/?action=obituaries.obit_view&CFID=80e7b10c-f431-4789-93d9-3c6d02b304ce&CFTOKEN=0&o_id=4264868&fh_id=10640 Venus Ramey | 1924 - 2017 | Obituary]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramey, Venus}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:American activists]] [[Category:Models from Kentucky]] [[Category:People from Ashland, Kentucky]] {{US-bio-stub}}