{"id":296284,"date":"2026-07-15T04:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296284\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:23:11","slug":"past-lawrence-county-fair-queens-1963-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296284\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Lawrence County Fair queens (1963-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Past Lawrence County Fair queens (1963-2026)<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 12:00 am Wednesday, July 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"https:\/\/irontontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/07\/2026-Fair-Queen-Wider-size.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-503155\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-503155 in-content-vertical-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-Fair-Queen-Wider-size.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-503155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maddie Bevins smiles on Sunday as she is crowned the 2026 Lawrence County Fair queen and has her crown put on by 2025 Lawrence County Fair Rachel Leith. Blevins is a senior at Symmes Valley High School and a member of Symmes Valley FFA. (Ironton Tribune | Mark Shaffer)<\/p>\n<p>The following is a list of those who wore the crown as Lawrence County Fair Queen in decades past, as compiled by pageant coordinator Jessie Newman:<\/p>\n<p>1963 \u2013 Linda Neal<\/p>\n<p>1964 \u2013 Nancy Armstrong<\/p>\n<p>1965 \u2013 Nancy Smith<\/p>\n<p>1966 \u2013 Donna Kay Smith<\/p>\n<p>1967 \u2013 Janice Bryant<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tEmail newsletter signup &#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/irontontribune.com\/subscriptions\/newsletter-sign-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Newletter_signUp_Small.png\" alt=\"Newsletter SignUp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1968 \u2013 Debbie Willis<\/p>\n<p>1969 \u2013 Nancy Kline<\/p>\n<p>1970 \u2013 Connie Howell<\/p>\n<p>1971 \u2013 Jonna S. Miller<\/p>\n<p>1972 \u2013 Opal Massie<\/p>\n<p>1973 \u2013 Jamiescue Mcllwayne<\/p>\n<p>1974 \u2013 Jackie Cox<\/p>\n<p>1975 \u2013 Kenidee Blake<\/p>\n<p>1976 \u2013 Lisa Lester<\/p>\n<p>1977 \u2013 Tanya Dickerson<\/p>\n<p>1978 \u2013 Angela Flemming<\/p>\n<p>1979 \u2013 Kathy Spears<\/p>\n<p>1980 \u2013 Penny Shannon<\/p>\n<p>1981 \u2013 Terri Balmer<\/p>\n<p>1982 \u2013 Chris Spanner<\/p>\n<p>1983 \u2013 Lori Pittman<\/p>\n<p>1984 \u2013 Keri Diamond<\/p>\n<p>1985 \u2013 Lisa Dickerson<\/p>\n<p>1986 \u2013 Sharon Kennedy<\/p>\n<p>1987 \u2013 Elizabeth Corder<\/p>\n<p>1988 \u2013 No pageant<\/p>\n<p>1989 \u2013 Becky Fuller<\/p>\n<p>1990 \u2013 Alicia Eldridge<\/p>\n<p>1991 \u2013 Shannon Geer<\/p>\n<p>1992 \u2013 Nancy Kay Peterson<\/p>\n<p>1993 \u2013 Brooke Vickers<\/p>\n<p>1994 \u2013 Shelly Wilson<\/p>\n<p>1995 \u2013 Mary Ann Kennedy<\/p>\n<p>1996 \u2013 Jenny Schwab<\/p>\n<p>1997 \u2013 Rachel Simpson<\/p>\n<p>1998 \u2013 Katie Garrett<\/p>\n<p>1999 \u2013 Sarah Schwab<\/p>\n<p>2000 \u2013 Olivia Jones<\/p>\n<p>2001 \u2013 Bethany Cooke<\/p>\n<p>2002 \u2013 Elizabeth Diamond<\/p>\n<p>2003 \u2013 Amber Ferguson<\/p>\n<p>2004 \u2013 Jessi Herrell<\/p>\n<p>2005 \u2013 Rebecca Capper<\/p>\n<p>2006 \u2013 Meghan Herrell<\/p>\n<p>2007 \u2013 Heather Ridenour<\/p>\n<p>2008 \u2013 Amanda McArthur<\/p>\n<p>2009 \u2013 Chelsey Keathley<\/p>\n<p>2010 \u2013 Brittany Norris<\/p>\n<p>2011 \u2013 Megan Rigney<\/p>\n<p>2012 \u2013 Shawna Myers<\/p>\n<p>2013 \u2013 Skye Barnett<\/p>\n<p>2014 \u2013 Cheryl Crawford<\/p>\n<p>2015 \u2013 Kimberly Schmidt<\/p>\n<p>2016 \u2013 Morgan Harper<\/p>\n<p>2017 \u2013 Matison Klaiber<\/p>\n<p>2018 \u2013 Montana Runnels<\/p>\n<p>2019 \u2013 Morgan Klaiber<\/p>\n<p>2020 \u2013 No fair, due to COVID-19 pandemic<\/p>\n<p>2021 \u2013 Willow Maynard<\/p>\n<p>2022 \u2013 Brea Belville<\/p>\n<p>2023 \u2013 Megan Foltz<\/p>\n<p>2024 \u2013 Isabella Kerns<\/p>\n<p>2025 \u2013 Rachel Leith<\/p>\n<p>2026 \u2013 Maddie Bevins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Past Lawrence County Fair queens (1963-2026) Published 12:00 am Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Maddie Bevins smiles on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-296284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}