In 1959, she performed the title position in The Ramona Pageant, a yearly out of doors engage in at Hemet, California, which is primarily based on the novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Bob Biloe. While attending La Jolla High School she gained the title of Miss La Jolla and the title of Miss San Diego - the Fairest of the Fair - at the San Diego County Fair. Her mother and father divorced when she completed her school yrs.