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It is so ironic and sad that I'm posting on Jayne Kennedy, a pageant winner from years past when just two days ago, a lovely young lady who'd been Miss USA left this Earth by her own hand. But I'm here to post about Jayne Kennedy, not Cheslie Kryst.
May she rest in power..
Jayne Kennedy (nee Harrison), a 5' ft. 10" model/actress who was a terific sports newscaster. Of course, her CV follows all the requisite steps a future pageant participant walks. Cheer-leader. National Honor Society member. Three times the president of her high school class. She was a woman of "1sts." First Black woman picked as Miss Ohio 1970. One of ten semi-fiinalist in the Miss USA pageant later that same year. Practically fresh out of high school, she married actor and DJ, Leon Isaac Kennedy in 1971. Next, she went on to a successful, if not distinguished, acting career appearing in many TV roles and a few films with her husband. She segued into sports casting on "NFL Today" on CBS but got the boot in 1980 over claims of sexism brought by her. Not to be stopped, she continued on a path of her own. By 1982, her 11-year marriage to Kennedy had ended. Still active in the industry, she met and married actor Bill Overton in 1985 The couple became parents to 4 daughters.. Now 70 years old, she and Overton are still togehter and Jayne is still as beautiful.
Off Topic:
Talk about a brush with celebrity. Jayne married Bill Overton in Bermuda in 1985. I was on vacation in Bermuda that same week they were married.. Small world indeed.
P. S.
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!
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