This memorial website was created in memory of JonBenet Ramsey, 6, born on August 6, 1990 and passed away on December 25, 1996. We will remember her forever.
Ramsey was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of two children of Patricia Ann "Patsy" (née Paugh) and John Ramsey. She had an older brother, Burke (born 1987). Her first name is a portmanteau of her father's first and middle names, John Bennett; her middle name was the first name of her mother, Patricia "Patsy" Ramsey. Ramsey's father John was the president of Access Graphics, a business computer system company which later became a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. In 1991, the family relocated to Boulder, Colorado where Access Graphics' headquarters were located. It was there that Patsy Ramsey began enrolling her daughter in a variety of different beauty pageants in several states. JonBenét Ramsey went on to win the titles of America's Royale Miss, Little Miss Charlevoix, Little Miss Colorado, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, and National Tiny Miss Beauty.JonBenét's active role in pageants as well as Patsy Ramsey's reported "pageant mother" behavior was highly scrutinized by media following the murder ]At the time of her death, Ramsey was enrolled in kindergarten at High Peaks Elementary School in Boulder, Colorado.
She is buried at St. James Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia, next to her mother, who died of ovarian cancer in 2006, and her half-sister Elizabeth Pasch Ramsey (daughter of her father John and his first wife, Lucinda Pasch), who died in a 1992 car accident at the age of 22 with her boyfriend Matthew Derrington
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