than $1.046 billion for the university. Axum taught speech classes at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and later worked in television, starring in programs like The Noon Show and Good Morning Arkansas. Axum was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be a member of the boards of the National Committee for the Performing Arts of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She also served at the Fort Worth Symphony, the Van Cliburn Foundation, named for the famed pianist from Shreveport, Louisiana, and the Texas Christian University College of Fine Arts Board of Visitors. Axum remained active at the University of Arkansas, participating in campaigns to help most of the university's fundraising efforts until her death in 2018. Personal life Axum first married Michael Alan Buckley and had one child, Lisa. They later divorced. In 1969, Axum married Gus Franklin Mutscher, who served as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1969 to 1972 and later as the Washington County judge. The pair divorced in 1972. They had a son, Gus H. Mutscher. On March 1, 1984, Axum married J. Bryan Whitworth, executive vice president of ConocoPhillips. The Whitworths lived in Fort Worth, Texas. Bryan Whitworth had three children, Elizabeth, Suzanne, and Cathy. As an author Axum penned How to Be and Look Your Best Everyday: A Comprehensive Guide from a Former Miss America in 1978. Axum died on November 4, 2018, at age 76 in Fort Worth from complications of Parkinson's disease. Axum is buried at Fairview Memorial Gardens in Fayetteville, Arkansas. See also List of Miss America titleholders References External links Delta Delta Delta Distinguished Alumnae profile video with transcript 1942 births 2018 deaths Baptists from Texas Miss America 1960s delegates Miss America Preliminary Swimsuit winners Miss America winners People from El Dorado, Arkansas People from Fort Worth, Texas People from Washington County, Texas University of Arkansas alumni Deaths from Parkinson's disease Neurological disease deaths in Texas Texas Tech University faculty Baptists from Arkansas 20th-century Baptists 20th-century American people