The Gazette-Mail Kanawha County Majorette and Band Festival (formerly Daily Mail) is an annual festival dedicated to the public high school marching bands and majorette corps in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
In 1973 her daughter, Kathi Holland Burton, won this competition and went on to be the feature twirler at West Virginia University for seven years.
Every year, the Majorette and Band Festival has an exhibition show following the final high school performance before the awards ceremony.
This exhibition show features one of West Virginia's only two NCAA Division I college marching bands.
There are currently eight public high schools in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
She went on to become the Feature Twirler for West Virginia State University's "Marching Swarm" from 2006 to 2008.
Another former Miss Kanawha Majorette also went on to become the Feature Twirler for West Virginia State University.