{"id":191255,"date":"2025-03-30T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T02:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=191255"},"modified":"2025-03-30T21:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T02:06:43","slug":"peony-pageant-queen-jubilee-year-by-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/03\/30\/peony-pageant-queen-jubilee-year-by-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Peony Pageant Queen Jubilee year by year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

50 years of the Peony Queen Pagaent \u2013 the Golden Jubilee \u2013 was celebrated Friday night at LifeHouse Church. Eight area high school senior girls competed for the coveted title and it wasn\u2019t an easy decision for the judges. In the end, Avery Altenburger, a senior at Delphos St. John\u2019s High School was chosen as Queen Jubilee 50 (see story here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Peony Queen was crowned in 1932 and a new one was crowned each year until 1941. After a hiatus, the pageant returned in 1955 and continued for five more years, then came to a halt until it was renewed in 1992. Since then, a new peony queen has been crowned each year. Here is a complete least of queens, year-by-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1932: Rheba Dougal Campbell<\/p>\n\n\n

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Queen Jubilee XXXVII (2012) Alex Burchfield promenades following her crowning Friday at the Marsh Foundation Auditorium. VW independent file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

1933: Mary Elizabeth \u201cBetty\u201d Sampsell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934: Thelmas Scheidt Vincent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1935: Leona Mae Moser Hunt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1936: Grayce Reed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1937: Jill Clare King-Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1938: Betty Althoen Tavis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1939: Betty Joan Jones Shellhaas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1940: Jeanne Lewis Wise<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1941: Genevieve Wendel Cecka<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1955: Janice Lynne Gardner Nott<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1956: Janies Beatty Gehres<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1957: Janice Prior Dugan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1959: Sara Drury Empry-Cantrell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1960: Sally Ann DeMoss Snyder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1992: Karen Schumm Ringwald<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1993: Tonya Summersett Powers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994: Michelle Calvelage Kortokrax<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1995: Carrie Beard Anspach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1996: Denise Buettner Lucas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1997: Amy Laukhuf Heilshorn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1998: Amber Marie McCoy Kreischer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1999: Julie Perkins Emerine<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

2000: Natalie Taylor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2001: Breena Treece<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2002: Jenna Gruden Missler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003: Sarah Rolsten Worden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004: Sarah Giffin Naas<\/p>\n\n\n

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Queen Jubilee XXXIX (2014) Chelsea Hancock. VW independent file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

2005: Amanda Keltner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006: DeAnna Kruger Miller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007: Hanna Fort Neely<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008: Heather Farr Edwards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009: Alyssa Evans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010: Ayla Eley Myers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011: Mari Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012: Alex Burchfield Lickenbrock<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013: Jorden Rex Moore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014: Chelsea Hancock Cox<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015: Schlylar Miller Bradford<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016: Ashton Bowersock<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017: Katlyn Wendel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018: Madison Pugh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019: Michaella Johnson Owen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020: Jill Gemmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021: Remi Fokine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022: Kayla Krites<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023: Mackenzie Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024: Claire Keysor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025: Avery Altenburger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent staff 50 years of the Peony Queen Pagaent \u2013 the Golden Jubilee \u2013 was celebrated Friday night at LifeHouse Church. Eight area high school senior girls competed for the coveted title and it wasn\u2019t an easy decision for the judges. In the end, Avery Altenburger, a senior at Delphos St. John\u2019s High School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 09:13:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191279,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191255\/revisions\/191279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}