Mary Lee Jepsen
Marylee Jepsen was born in Omaha, Nebraska on January 22, 1944. She was Miss Nebraska in 1962 at 18 years old and the feature performer on the Miss America 1963 Pageant Telecast. She ended up as a semi-finalist in the top ten and tied for the Preliminary Talent Award. She twirled three fire battons while performing acrobatics.
After graduating from high school she went on to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and was granted to stay in the Governors Mansion for the first month. Graduating from the University of Nebraska she moved to California at 22. Marylee took up a teaching position while also attending Santa Clara University where she earned a Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology. She also holds Masters of Arts in Religion from Trinity Evangelical School in Deerfield, Illinois and a Post-Masters Certification from Northwestern University in Marriage and Family Therapy.
She is married to Grayson Sanders, a former Lieutenant in the United States Navy, a graduate from University of Virginia and Stanford. Her brother is Steve Jepsen who held the bench press record at the University of Nebraska and was the Big 8 Discus Champion.[1] She is currently an Elder at First Presbyterian Church.