Gail Renshaw

Gail Renshaw (born c. 1947) is an American beauty pageant titleholder.

She was a teen model and by 22 was competing in national pageants. Her first marriage ended in divorce.[1]

She won Miss World USA 1969.[2] Renshaw was 1st runner-up at the 1969 Miss World competition. After the pageant, she resigned her title in order to get married, and was replaced by the runner-up in the USA contest, Connie Haggard from Texas. Gail graduated from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia in 1965.

She was briefly engaged to Dean Martin. Later her name was Gail Renshaw Blackwell. She studied and became a registered nurse, specializing in dialysis.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Our Man in Arlington - Falls Church News-Press Online". 8 July 2014.
  2. ^ "1969 Miss World-U.S.A." Archived from the original on 2007-04-12. Retrieved 2007-03-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Our Man in Arlington - Falls Church News-Press Online". 8 July 2014.
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Miss World 1969 national titleholders
  • Austria Eva Rueber-Staier
  • Canada Jacquie Perrin
  • Ecuador Ximena Aulestia
  • United States Gail Renshaw
  • Venezuela Marzia Piazza


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