Anniversary
2012 Miss Annie Oakley
Photo: Left to Right
2011 Miss Annie Oakley Laura Francis
2012 Miss Annie Oakely Elisabeth Harless
and Annie Oakley impersonator Loretta Jones
Photographer Chris Norris took this photo from tonight's Miss Annie Oakley finals at the fairgrounds. Elisabeth Harless became the 2012 Miss Annie Oakley after winning at the 105' range.
First Runner up is Courtney Osborne, Second Runner up is Rachel Francis, and Third Runner up is Alyssa Baumgardner.
Attention all past Miss Annie Oakley’s.
The Annie Oakley Committee would like to invite you
to this year’s 50th anniversary of the Annie Oakley Festival
as our guest. We would like
to have a group photo taken on Saturday, July 27, 2013 at 3:15 at the
Gazebo. We need your mailing
address!
Please send us an email with your mailing address
and the year you were Miss Annie to:
pastannies@annieoakleyfestival.org or use regular mail to: Annie
Oakley Committee,
Great news: Guest speaker for the annual pilgrimage to Annie's grave on Thurs. July 25 will be the honorable Jim Buchy.
The Annie Oakley Committee needs your help. We have only 12 members and 6 volunteers signed up so far this year. If you have a few hours available that you could help us, call festival president, Bill Gunckle at 548-4249 or send an email [here] and see how you could help.
The new officers for 2013 are:
Bill Gunckle, President
Judie Hathaway, 1st Vice President
Hannah Linebaugh, Secretary
Bill Gunckle, Treasurer
For a report on the October meeting, see the news page.
We need help for the festival.
The next Annie Oakley Committee meeting will be Wednesday, November 14. 7pm at the Darke County Parks nature center on 502. Everyone is welcome.
In advertisements for the Wild West Show, Annie was called “Little Sure Shot”—the nickname Chief Sitting Bull, her costar, had given her. She would hit the edge of a playing card from 90 feet, and shoot it five or six more times before it hit the ground.
The Annie Oakley Festival began in the summer
of 1963 as the brainchild of local individuals who sought to further
the memory and image of their native daughter, “Annie Oakley –
Little Miss Sure Shot.”
The festival committee is a group of volunteer citizens and business
owners who dedicate themselves, along with countless hours of work,
to make this annual festival
For 33 years, the festival was held behind
The core mission of The Annie Oakley Festival is honoring Darke Counties most famous Daughter.
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