What is Donna Axum?
[[File:Donna Axum.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Axum in 1964]] '''Donna Idelle Axum''' (January 3, 1942 &ndash; November 4, 2018) was an American beauty pageant winner, philanthropist and model. She was newly made Miss Arkansas who was crowned [[Miss America]] in 1964. She was born in [[El Dorado, Arkansas]]. From 1969 to 1972, she was married to [[Texas]] state politician [[Gus Franklin Mutscher]]. Axum died on November 4, 2018 in [[Fort Worth, Texas]] from complications of [[Parkinson's disease]] at the age of 76.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://5newsonline.com/2018/11/05/first-miss-arkansas-to-win-miss-america-dies-at-76/|title=First Miss Arkansas To Win Miss America Dies At 76|publisher=5NewsOnline|access-date=November 5, 2018}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927205216/http://www.tridelta.org/alumnae/Distinguished_Alumnae/distinguished_deltas/directory_detail.asp?blobID=4149 Delta Delta Delta Distinguished Alumnae profile] *{{cite web|title=Donna Axum Whitworth|url=http://pryorcenter.uark.edu/interview.php?thisProject=Arkansas%20Memories&thisProfileURL=WHITWORTH-Donna-Axum&displayName=Donna%20%20Axum%20Whitworth&thisInterviewee=520|publisher=Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=November 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110190638/http://pryorcenter.uark.edu/interview.php?thisProject=Arkansas%20Memories&thisProfileURL=WHITWORTH-Donna-Axum&displayName=Donna%20%20Axum%20Whitworth&thisInterviewee=520|url-status=dead}} video with transcript {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Axum, Donna}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from Parkinson's disease]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Texas]] [[Category:American models]] [[Category:Miss America winners]] [[Category:Philanthropists from Arkansas]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Arkansas]] [[Category:People from El Dorado, Arkansas]]