largest church staffs in the United
States as a minister to children and
women and has also traveled overseas. Through the Group Publishing
Company out of Loveland, Colo., she
spent two weeks on a man-made boat
on the Amazon River in Pocola, Peru,
with 37 women, ages ranging from
18-65. “We had guards with machine
guns,” she remembered. “And every
day we would get off the boat and
climb a mountain. We ministered
to women. It was very interesting to
be on a boat with 37 women and no
drama.”
She has also traveled to Korea and
India. In India she lived in an orphanage and spoke to 200 women and
pastors every day through an interpreter. “When I walked in the first
night all the men were sitting in chairs
and the women on the concrete
floor,” she said. “And I couldn’t help
but laugh because in America that
would not happen. It became a joke
and I guess it was the way I presented
it because it wasn’t seen as an insult
or anything. Then the next day, the
women were in the chairs and the
men on the floor. It was very interesting and educational.”
Selma Johnson was one of those
people that in middle school and high
school did 1,000 hours of charity
work at Cook Children’s Hospital. “It
prepared me for all the things I have
experienced over the years,” she said.
“The Lord has blessed me in many
ways. I grew up on the North Side of
Fort Worth and my dad was an old
cowboy. I learned a lot about ranching and I’ve had a variety of things in
life to do and I think that has helped
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Selma served at Freedom House
as the Sexual Assault Coordinator
and now serves on the Texas Board
of Sexual Assault where she also has
a program for schools on bullying.
She is also planning on starting up
her consulting business, Kaleidoscope
Past, which involves coaching, speaking, consulting and a few different
things. She is being scouted by three
pageant associations.
“Miss World Tourism, Miss
World Classic and Today’s American
Woman. Today’s American Woman
wants me to enter again and become
their lifetime ambassador,” she said.
“I can’t make up my mind because I
can’t enter any other pageants until I
fulfill my committed appearances for
American Woman.”
Today, Selma’s philosophy is that
“Anyone can be a success if they
want to be.” As she continues her life,
Selma has a bit of advice for anyone
who is competing, especially anyone
who has a child in pageants.
“Let their child be a child at that
age. Dress them appropriately and let
them be themselves. I was still a winner even when I lost because I had
learned something. Don’t go in with
an attitude,” she advised. “Let them
be themselves. That was one thing
my mother always let me do, was be
myself. I was just me.”
As she gathered up her Glamma
suitcase and started for the door, glittering all the way, Selma smiled and
thanked us for the coffee, then said on
one last note, “It’s not the size you are
or the beauty you have. It’s who you
are on the inside that shines.”
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National Finals Rodeo, and she has
big plans for that title. All her experiences have led her to some interesting people. “I was traveling to
Austin, going through Hamilton, and
I got pulled over because this officer
thought I was weaving on the other
side of the road,” she said smiling
down at her coffee cup then looking
up conspiratorially. “When he asked
if I’d been drinking I said, ‘No sir, I’ve
only had three cups of pecan coffee
in Burnet, Texas.’ I guess I can cross
that off my list — being pulled over
for intoxication.” But she also got
pulled over coming back the other
way two days later.
“I was stopped by a different
police officer and he kept saying he
knew me. He kept looking at my
driver’s license and he said, ‘I know
you from somewhere.’” Selma smiled
and put down her coffee cup, leaning
forward as if drawing in the audience.
“And then he finally said, ‘You’re
Cowboyville Glamma and you took
my money in Vegas!’”
One of Selma’s duties as Cowboyville Glamma is to sell raffle
tickets at Cowboyville for the Cancer
Society. She laughed as she told us, “I
couldn’t help that he just kept peeling
off twenties and handing them to me.
They wanted to win the Ryan Motes
Saddle on the raffle.” Apparently
Selma took 80 dollars of the officer’s
money and some of his friend’s money as well. She told him, “I can’t help
that you were giving me the twenties.
Just think what a good cause it was.”
According to her, you’ve got to have
humor to survive.
She is supported by both her husband of fifty years and her children.
“He says, ‘Whatever you want to do,
go ahead. It’s your thing as long as it
doesn’t cost me money,” Selma said.
“So I have to get sponsors.”
When she first began pageants it
was free to enter and compete but
now you have to pay to enter in addition to getting sponsors to help you.
She says the rest of her family supports her as well. “My son and daughter and my grandkids, they just say,
‘Oh, well, that’s Nana. She always
has an adventure.’” Her family is very
supportive of all her ventures – even
those outside of the pageant world.
Selma has been on some of the
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