Sharlene Wells Hawkes

Sharlene Wells Hawkes (born 16 March 1964), from Salt Lake City, Utah, was Miss America 1985. Hawkes (née Wells), was born in Asunción, Paraguay and spent most of her childhood in South America. Hawkes is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). She attended Brigham Young University from which she graduated in 1988. She was crowned BYU's Homecoming Queen in 1983. She is a singer and released an album called Songs of the Morning Stars in the mid 1990s. She also plays the piano and the harp. Hawkes is the daughter of Robert E. Wells, a former general authority of the LDS Church, and Helen Walser Wells. She is married to Robert A. Hawkes. They have 3 daughters and a son. She was a horse racing and college...