Hela Yungst

Pageant titleholder bio
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title=Miss New Jersey 1970
nationalcompetition=Miss America 1971
birthname=Hela Yungst
location= Hillside, New Jersey. U.S.

Hela Yungst was born in Israel and raised in Hillside, New Jersey by her parents who were Holocaust survivors. She was graduated from Hillside High School in 1967. She was a member of the National Honor Society and was awarded the title of Miss New Jersey, representing the state in the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in 1971, around this time she graduated Newark State College (now Kean University) with a B.A. in music education. She changed her name to Hela Young and became the New Jersey Lottery representative on television, picking the nightly winning numbers for some 24 years. She resided with her husband and children in Mountainside, New Jersey and died in 2002 after a long illness.

External links

* [http://www.njn.net/guide/behindscenes/02mar.html A Tribute to Hela Young - NJN Behind the Scenes, March, 2002]
* [http://cache.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=266074320&page_url=www%2Enewsday%2Ecom%2Fnews%2Fobituaries%2Fny%2Dnyhela272604303feb27%2Estory%3Fcoll%3Dny%252Dobits%252Dheadlines&page_last_updated=2%2F27%2F2002+11%3A52%3A07+AM&firstName=Hela&lastName=Young Archived copy of obituary] , "Newsday", dated February 27, 2002