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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 28 > Former Bend Water Pageant queen dies at 94

Former Bend Water Pageant queen dies at 94

By Nicole Santa Cruz / The Bulletin
March 28, 2009

Bend has lost one of its queens.

Lois Maker Gumpert, the queen of the 1934 Bend Water Pageant, died this week.

The lifelong Central Oregonian was many things to people in the community. To some, she was the beautiful queen of the water pageant in 1934 and the 1995 Pioneer Queen of Deschutes....

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