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12 Girls Vying for Hiawatha Halloween Queen

By Greg Bebermeyer

10/21/2014

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(KNZA)--Twelve area girls are vying to be crowned as the 100th Hiawatha Halloween Frolic queen.

The candidates will attend a dinner and judging at the Hiawatha High School this Saturday and the winner will be crowned at a ceremony on Friday, October 31st at 6:30 in the evening at the Brown County Historical Society’s Memorial Auditorium in downtown Hiawatha.

The area candidates include:

Miss Everest, Kelly Ann Lehew
Miss Hiawatha, Lydia Ann Lierz
Miss Horton, Alysha Nigh
Miss Lancaster, Samantha Harden
Miss Marysville, Alexis Stech
Miss Rossville, Breanna Hill
Miss Rulo, Shiloah Mernissa Marie Feighner
Miss Sabetha, Sarah Nicole Plum
Miss Seneca, Janie Bramhall
Miss Tonganoxie, Grace Elizabeth Reilly
Miss Troy, Ashley Janae Stock
Miss Wathena, Megan Lynnae Muellerx

Meanwhile, twenty-two former queen candidates will be attending this year’s 100th Hiawatha Halloween Frolic.

Nancy Oswald, representing the former queens, told city commissioners Monday evening among the queens returning is one from Massachusetts and another from Chicago.

She said the oldest living former queen who will be attending is 90-year-old Wilma Jean Peabody Hargis of Highland, who was the 1942 queen.

Oswald said the first queen was not in 1914, but in 1920.