Dorothy Benham
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Dorothy Kathleen Benham (born December 11, 1955) from Edina
, Minnesota
, was Miss America 1977. She was born to Archie & Mary Dorothy Tuomi Benham. She has one sister named Totiana and two brothers named Sean and Archibald.
Benham currently lives in Edina, Minnesota. She has appeared in Broadway musicals, and regularly performs on the Crystal Cathedral television program, "Hour of Power." On May 26, 1978, she married her first husband Russell Anderson, with whom she has four children, Adam, Russell, Ben and Mia. On December 31, 1991, she married Michael McGowan with whom she has two children named Madeline and Richard. On August 28, 2001, she married her current husband Paul Shoemaker. Behman has filed for divorce from Shoemaker and has claimed that ownership of a pet cat is holding up the final decree.
Edina, Minnesota
Edina is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and a first-ring suburb situated immediately southwest of Minneapolis. Edina began as a small farming and milling community in the 1860s. The population was 47,941 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, was Miss America 1977. She was born to Archie & Mary Dorothy Tuomi Benham. She has one sister named Totiana and two brothers named Sean and Archibald.
Benham currently lives in Edina, Minnesota. She has appeared in Broadway musicals, and regularly performs on the Crystal Cathedral television program, "Hour of Power." On May 26, 1978, she married her first husband Russell Anderson, with whom she has four children, Adam, Russell, Ben and Mia. On December 31, 1991, she married Michael McGowan with whom she has two children named Madeline and Richard. On August 28, 2001, she married her current husband Paul Shoemaker. Behman has filed for divorce from Shoemaker and has claimed that ownership of a pet cat is holding up the final decree.