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Mary Leona Gage (April 8, 1939 – October 5, 2010) was a beauty queen from Maryland who was crowned Miss USA 1957, the first, and so far, only woman from that state to capture the Miss USA crown. She was stripped of her title when it was revealed that she was 18, married, and the mother of two children. She was a toddler when her parents moved from Longview to Wichita Falls, Texas. Her mother worked two jobs. Her father, paralyzed in an industrial accident, stayed home. She was 14 years old when she got married and had her first child. Her first husband was named Gene Ennis and he worked... MORE

Mary Leona Gage (April 8, 1939 – October 5, 2010) was a beauty queen from Maryland who was crowned Miss USA 1957, the first, and so far, only woman from that state to capture the Miss USA crown. She was stripped of her title when it was revealed that she was 18, married, and the mother of two children. She was a toddler when her parents moved from Longview to Wichita Falls, Texas. Her mother worked two jobs. Her father, paralyzed in an industrial accident, stayed home. She was 14 years old when she got married and had her first child. Her first husband was named Gene Ennis and he worked as an airman in the U.S. Air Force. Ennis was 24 when he met 13 year old Gage. Soon, Gage became pregnant and attempted to write to Ennis after he was shipped out. He never responded. One day, a drugstore employee, who was getting married, suggested that she should get married with a volunteer groom. Gage agreed and they headed to Oklahoma for a double wedding. She married an airman named Edward Thacker. At her mother's insistence, the marriage to Thacker was annulled within the week. When Ennis came back into her life in 1953, the still 14-year-old Mary married him in Wichita Falls; they moved to LESS