Pamela Eldred | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 21, 1948 |
| Died | July 12, 2022 (aged 74) |
| Title | Miss Detroit 1969 Miss Michigan 1969 Miss America 1970 |
| Predecessor | Judith Ford |
| Successor | Phyllis George |
| Spouses |
Norman Robbins (m. 1998) |
| Children | 1 |
Pamela Anne Eldred (April 21, 1948 - July 12, 2022) was an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Michigan 1969 and later Miss America 1970.[1][2]
Eldred is from West Bloomfield and graduated from University of Detroit Mercy.[3][4]
She was crowned Miss America 1970 on September 6, 1969.[5][6] A ballerina, Eldred performed a dance in the Miss America talent competition to music from Romeo and Juliet. One of the five finalists Eldred defeated in the Miss America 1970 pageant was singer and actress Susan Anton.
She participated in the home-coming of Kirsten Haglund along with Nancy Fleming Lange and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson, both former Miss Michigans who also became Miss America.[7]
After her year as Miss America 1970, she married Dr. Jules F. Levey and had a daughter, Hilary Levey (Friedman), a Harvard-educated sociologist.[8] She remarried in 1998 to lawyer Norman Robbins, who is 29 years her senior.[8] Eldred died in her native Michigan on July 12, 2022, at the age of 74.