Fayette County Fair Association has now named Josie Strauch as the 2023 Miss Fayette County Fair Queen

For Immediate Release

August 17, 2023

 

The Board of Directors of the Fayette County Fair Association, along with Kim Frutiger, director of the Miss Fayette County Fair Queen Pageant, announced, August 16 that the 2023 Miss Fayette County Fair First Runner-up, Josie Strauch, has now been named the 2023 Miss Fayette County Fair Queen.

 

Strauch, 20, of St. Elmo, immediately replaces Addie McWhorter, 18, also of St. Elmo, after McWhorter violated the misconduct policy of the Fayette County Fair Queen Pageant.

 

Strauch, who attends Murray State University majoring in agriculture education, will assume duties and responsibilities for the remainder of the pageant year and will represent Fayette County in January as she competes for the title of Miss Illinois County Fair Queen at the Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs annual convention in Springfield.

 

For more information contact Kim Frutiger at 618-780-0765.