Toni Jo Abbenante Farmer

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Toni Jo Abbenante Farmer from East Grand Rapids, Michigan, holds the title of Miss Michigan for 1967. While not winning the Miss America 1968 pageant, Toni Jo was voted Miss Congeniality by her fellow contestants.

East Grand Rapids, Michigan City in Michigan, United States

East Grand Rapids is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is located on the shores of Reeds Lake. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,694.

Michigan State of the United States of America

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". With a population of about 10 million, Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, and is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies.

Miss Michigan

The Miss Michigan competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Michigan in the Miss America pageant. Michigan has won the Miss America crown on five occasions.

Preceded by
Nancy Ackert (1966)		 Miss Michigan
1967		Succeeded by
Darlene Kurant (1968)

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