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MOBLEY, MARY ANN LEDBETTER , age 79, died November 10, 2009 in Orlando, FL. She was born April 16, 1930, in Greene County, TN, to William Roy and Sarah Justine (Payne) Ledbetter. As a direct ...
Mary Ann Mobley, the 1959 Miss America who described herself as “a short girl with a face as round as a Moon Pie,” went on to become an actress, TV personality, and philanthropist. She died at ...
Mary Ann Mobley, a former Miss America who went on to stage, film, and television fame died Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif., according to a statement from the University of Mississippi ...
About the same time Mary Ann Mobley was crowned the 1959 Miss America, she was becoming known on the University of Mississippi campus as "queen of the mustard seed necklace." "Every girl at Ole ...
They danced in the streets of Brandon the night one of their own, Mary Ann Mobley, was crowned the 1959 Miss America. "That's not just a saying, that's a fact," said Waymon Tigrett, 70 ...
Mary Ann Mobley, who stepped into the spotlight as the first Miss Mississippi to become Miss America and later hit the silver screen opposite Elvis Presley, has died. She was 77. She died Tuesday ...
Actress, philanthropist and former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley died Tuesday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif., after a second battle with breast cancer, one of her daughters has announced in a ...
Mary Ann Mobley, who was the first Mississippian to be crowned Miss America and who then parlayed that achievement into a successful movie career, has died. She was 77 and had been battling breast ...
Actress and former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley died Tuesday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif., after a second battle with breast cancer, television station WTOK in Meridian, Miss., reported ...