

Ms. Senior Alabama 2024
Sharon Pitts
(Ms. Senior Vestavia)







Elegance and Inner Beauty

Active Lifestyle
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Fashion Runway

Opening Number/Introduction
Sharon's Message to Senior Women:
As you retire from a successful career, you may find yourself struggling with your purpose. It is important to know that you have a purpose and begin as quickly as possible to determine how you can best live your purpose. First, think of what you want to retain from your career, whether it’s technical skills, sales skills, leadership skills, et cetera. Second, think of what you’ve always wanted to do but never had the time, and what comes with ease to you, and brings you joy. Then, find a way in which to propagate your talents and desires through a church, civic, community or personal effort. You will learn that you are very good at many things and you may find a new challenge in blending personal and volunteer purposes.
Also, attack your purpose with passion and self confidence. Feel the passion that makes you act on needs, responsibilities and whatever you encounter in your new purpose and your self confidence will be sensed by and be of inspiration to others. Just as you couldn’t sit around and not do your job, don’t sit around and not accomplish your responsibilities and commitments in your new purpose efforts.
Sharon's Philosophy of Life:
Share your time, talent and treasure is a popular adage. We don’t hear or talk much about sharing wisdom. Yet there is an entire book in the greatest story ever told dedicated to Solomon and his wisdom. Wisdom comes from life experiences and at this age, we have invaluable experiences of many dichotomies. Evil and good, fear and courage, hatred and love, illness and health, sadness and joy, and I could go on. The point being, always be open to grow in wisdom and share your wisdom. Share your wisdom with the younger generation who these days are protected from a life full of robust experiences, opinions and differences and may never become wise by having and living their own experiences. Maya Angelou wrote, “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Tell your stories, share your wisdom, sing your song!
Community Outreach 2024-2025
Alabama National Veterans Cemetery in Montevallo Wreaths Across America
Amazing Grace Farms thanks Forest Rangers
Amazon Hope Thrift Store Auction for Missions
An Evening with Overture Tributary Residents
Bras Across the Causeway
Breast Cancer Research Foundation Pink Palace Casino Fundraiser
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Cahabaque's Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama
Cajun Cook Off in Downtown Mobile
Celebrate Recovery of Talladega
Center Point hosts A Positive Experience spring break event
Chelsea City Council listens to the message, mission and purpose of MSA
Child Abuse Prevention Kites 4 Kids event at Vulcan Park
Children's Rehab Services
City of Hoover celebration
Colonel Robert Howard Veterans Home
Commission on Aging (COA) Christmas Party
Cove Couture Fashion Show benefiting Shepherd's Cove Hospice Foundation
Cullman County Commission on Aging
Cullman County Commission on Aging with James Spann @ Fairview Senior Center
Cullman County Fair-Senior Day with Cullman County Commission on Aging
Cullman County Sheriff's Office Rodeo Dinner
Cullman Senior Easter Egg Hunt
Cullman Sheriff's Office celebrated with cookout put on by seniors
Dance Foundation 50 Year Pre Party Celebration
Daphne Senior Center & Belforest Elementary Thanksgiving Day Cards
Daphne Veteran's Day Program
Daphne's Special Christmas Program
Down Syndrome Alabama
Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration in Abbeville
Dress for Success
Fairview Senior Center
Food For Our Journey
Gentiva Hospice Food Drive
Gulf Coast Cultural Arts Center
Hartselle Health Fair
Hoover Historical Society officer installation
Hots 4 Tots Chili Cookoff with Exchange Club of Irondale supporting Child Abuse Prevention
Inaugural Festa Italiana
Kids Play Alabama's Gala
Mock Interviews for Carver Academy Students
Morningside Assisted Living Flashy Friday Music & Movement
Morningside Assisted Living Gorgeous Grandma Fashion Show
MSA appreciates Daphne Firefighters
MSA appreciates Gulf Shores Firefighters
MSA appreciates Hoover Firefighters
MSA attends Arise of Hoover's grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony
MSA attends Stars, Stripes and Style fundraiser for Baldwin County Veterans Treatment Court and American Legion Post #199
MSA connects with the new Arise Community in Hoover
MSA delivers spiritual Easter gifts to Caring Ministries at FMUC
MSA delivers Women's History Month Message
MSA 2024 and Ms Senior St. Clair County at the 2025 Presidential Inauguration
MSA partners with Flourish of Cullman, Inc for meal deliveries to homebound seniors
MSA plays bingo with Crossville High School students
MSA promotes The Giving Machine donations to Downs Syndrome Alabama
MSA recognizes Child Abuse Prevention Month
MSA Supports Children's Arts Guild Fashion Show benefiting the Dance Foundation
MSA visits with Alabama House Member Rep Kenneth Paschal
MSS Marshall County 2025 authors and publishes her book "Night Pigeons"
National Peanut Festival
National Senior Citizens Day-Coosa Valley Nursing Home
National Senior Citizens Day-Daphne Senior Center
National Senior Citizens Day-Fairview Senior Center
National Senior Citizens Day-Seniors of Helena
National Senior Citizens Day-Seniors of Vestavia
National Veterans Award Dinner
Nix Center Pageant Planning Session
Ohatchee, Ragland and Pell City Seniors and Veterans
Oktoberfest in Cullman with the Fairview Senior Center Recycled Teenagers
Out of the Darkness MSA Booth Supporting Suicide Awareness
Out of the Darkness Walk 2024-Daphne
Pilot Club of Cullman
Project Prom in Mobile
Queens Showcase
Real Men Wear Pink Breast Cancer Fundraiser
Semmes Azalea Festival
Senior Day at the Strawberry Festival in Cullman
Spanish Fort Fire and Rescue 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run
Spanish Fort High School Cheerleaders
Step Out of Your Comfort Zone encouraged in Huntsville
Think Pink Breast Friends Forever Event
Thomas Medical Center Volunteer
Toys for Tots
Trussville Senior Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary
University of South Alabama Jaguar Cheerleaders
Unless U 10th Anniversary Celebration
Unless U Talent Show
Veteran's Day Tribute to Elvis at Robert L. Howard Veterans Home in Pell City
Warrior Senior Center learns of Financial Wellness
Amazing Grace Farms Celebrates Veterans (from Ragland, Pell City and Fultondale American Legion Post 255)
Amazing Grace Farms receives donation/funding for Veterans from Women's Auxiliary & Riders
Amazing Grace Farms State of Alabama Certificate of Recognition
City of Vestavia and Mayor Ashley Curry Recognition of MSA 2024
Fairhope Veterans Day Parade
Family of the Year Award
Buzz 4 Good
Kim Crawford Meeks, MSA Executive Director is chosen Positive Maturity's Top 50 Over 50
Sharon Lanzi Pitts, MSA 2024 is chosen Positive Maturity's Top 50 Over 50
Ms Senior World 2024 World Career Achievement Award
Ms Super Senior 2024 World People's Choice Award
MSA Celebrates its oldest living Queen, Dorothy Holt's, 98th birthday
MSA Celebrates Miss Alabama chosen as Miss America 2025
MSS Fairhope 2025 recognized by OOMM Float Sisters as Super Queen
Amanda Pair Foundation
Amazing Grace Farms donates 500 Bibles to the Spiritual Health & Counseling Dept. of USA
Apricot Lane Shopping - Hoover and Mobile % of Sales Donated to MSA
Breast Cancer Research Pink Palace Casino
Espresso & Sweet Bite Service at Festa Italiana for MSA Donations
Festa Della Donna Teacup Auction for MSA
Hazel Green Athletics Association Fundraiser Pageant
MSA team wins Hots 4 Tots Chili Cookoff and donates winning to Child Abuse Prevention
Shelby County Humane Society receives donation of cat and dog food and treats
Vita Pacifica 1 Year Anniversary Celebration Flower Bar for MSA Donations
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Ann Davis, Kidz Eats Baldwin County founder, receives Human Sunshine Award
Courageous cancer fighter, Beverly, receives the Human Sunshine Award
Jane DeMeis receives Human Sunshine Award for services she provides to the seniors of VIP of Our Lady of Sorrows​
South Alabama MSA Queens present the first Human Sunshine Award to Zac Forrester of the Daphne Fire Department
South Alabama MSA Queens present Human Sunshine Award to Kay Laughlin for her volunteer services to Uptail Resale of Fairhope
Dana Self presents Human Sunshine Award to Pat Reid of Warrior Pharmacy
Lori Cox & Kim Crawford Meeks present Human Sunshine Award to Pilar Bell for her Clinical Social Work/Terapist
Central AL MSA Queens present Human Sunshine Award to Shana Carlon, Activities Director at the R. L. Howard Veterans Home
Lori Cox presents Human Sunshine Award to Stacy Holman of Hot Wheels Skating Rink in Daphne
Denise Bryant presents Human Sunshine Award to Petie Byrd as the Director of the Spanish Fort Senior Center
Shirley Hamilton presents Human Sunshine Award to The Director of Celebrate Recovery of Childersburg, Jennifer
Marilyn Jent presents Third grade teacher, Dana Phillips, a Human Sunshine Award
Kim Crawford Meeks presents USA Health and University Hospital volunteer and gift shop manager, Ashlety Peyer, the Human Sunshine Award
Wanda Martin receives Human Sunshine Award for her many contributions to her community
Kathy Paiml presents Hewy Woodman, Helena City Councilman a Human Sunshine Award
Dana Self presents Human Sunshine Award to Anne Stover, Coordinator at Mortimer Jordan High School
Kim Crawford Meeks presents the Human Sunshine Award to Ms. Senior Alabama 2024 Sharon Pitts for her community outreach efforts
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280 Living
ABC 33/40 Talk of Alabama interviews MSA 2024
CBS 42 features Ms Senior Jefferson County pageant
Community Journal
Cullman County Senior Magazine
Fox 10
Gulf Coast Social Magazine
NBC WVTM 13 interviews MSA 2024
One Voice
Over The Mountain Journal
Social Coastal
Social Eastern Shore
The Advertiser Gleam
The Mullet Wrapper
Vestavia Voice
What's Happening in Vestavia
WKRG does story on HSA recipient Zac Forrester
WKRG features honorary MSA Millie the Therapy Dog
WKRG provides awareness of Suicide Prevention Week
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CDC Extraordinary Pageant Judging
Hazel Green Athletics Association pageant judging
Little Miss Helena Pageant Judging
Little Miss Honeybee Pageant Judging
Little Miss Jubilee, Miss Jubilee, Rising Star and Miss Mobile Bay Pageant Judging
Little Miss Vidalia Pageant Judging
Locust Fork K-6th grade Pageant Judging
Miss Azalea Bell Pageant Judging
Miss CCS Lioness & Fair Queen Pageant Judging
Miss Etowah County Pageant Judging
Miss Gulf Coast Pageantry
Miss Halloqueen Pageant Judging
Miss Shrimp Festival Pageant Judging
Miss Spanish Fort High School Pageant Judging
Ms. Homestead Village Pageant Judging
Ms Senior Jubilee Pageant Judging
The Original Miss Seafood Pageant Judging
Alabama Wildlife Center
Amazing Grace Farms
Annual Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival
Child Abuse Prevention Board
Compassion Ranch
Dance Foundation Board
Fort Novosel Field Study Program for International Soldiers
Kidz Eats - Baldwin County
Nix Senior Center-Fairhope pageant directing
Regions Tradition Pro-Am Golf Tournament
Rise Against Hunger
Thomas Hospital Gift Shop
Transplant Life Foundation-Transplant Games 2024 Volunteer
GaGa's Early Years Preschoolers get a gift and a story from MSA
MSA reads "Mary's Wardrobe" to first graders at Our Lady of Sorrows
MSA reads "The Sock Monster" story to 5K at Meadowview Elementary in Alabaster
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MSA reads to 4th graders at Maddox
MSA tells the Bible story of Naaman to Sumiton Elementary students
MSA Board Member connected with women across the US at the Shriner's Convention
Elks Lodge Mardi Gras Party
Alabaster Christmas Parade
Albertville Chamber Christmas Parade
Apollo's Mystic Ladies Mardi Gras Parade
Arab Christmas Parade
Birmingham Veterans Day Parade
Childersburg Christmas Parade
Childersburg Christmas Tree Lighting
Christmas Bingo with The Crossings at Riverchase
Daphne Christmas Parade
Fairhope Veterans Day Parade
Grand Marshall of Fairview Lions Club Labor Day Parade
Lake Guntersville Chamber Guntersville Christmas Parade
Silver Hill Christmas Parade
Spanish Fort Holiday Event
Spanish Fort Christmas Parade
Talladega Mardi Gras Parade
Vestavia Christmas Parade
Warrior Christmas Parade