'58 American dairy princess Stout dies
November 16, 2010 - 0 comments
Piedmont, Okla. -- Sandra Sue Stout, an Oklahoma girl who got a taste of celebrity as America's 1958 dairy princess, has died after a short illness, her daughter said. She was 71.
Jamie Belt of Piedmont told The Oklahoman her mother died Thursday.
Stout once told the newspaper the American Dairy Association picked her from among 26 contenders for the national dairy crown despite some "truly good-looking southern belles" and her with a jaw swollen by a toothache.
"I never felt so out of place in my life," she said in the 2008 interview. "I didn't think I was going to win. The little girl from Louisiana looked like Marilyn Monroe."
But win she did and off she went on a nationwide tour of state fairs, conventions and cities that included television appearances on "The Arthur Godfrey Show and "The Today Show."
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