Hela Yungst
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| Hela Yungst Beauty pageant titleholder |
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| Birth name: | Hela Yungst |
| Birth location: | Hillside, New Jersey. U.S. |
| Title(s): | Miss New Jersey 1970 |
| Major Competition(s): | Miss America 1971 |
Hela Yungst was born in Israel and raised in Hillside, New Jersey by her parents who were Holocaust survivors. She was graduated from Hillside High School in 1967. She was a member of the National Honor Society and was awarded the title of Miss New Jersey, representing the state in the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in 1971, around this time she graduated Newark State College (now Kean University) with a B.A. in music education. She changed her name to Hela Young and became the New Jersey Lottery representative on television, picking the nightly winning numbers for some 24 years. She resided with her husband and children in Mountainside, New Jersey and died in 2002 after a long illness.
