Rebekah Anne Oakley is the daughter of Nathan and Deborah Oakley and the third of five children.
She enjoys reading books, watching movies, painting watercolors, baking macarons, arranging flowers, playing board games, walloping her family in Bananagrams, organizing, photography, hiking, and listening to music while doing many of the aforementioned.
Rebekah has played clarinet for eight years with the Starkville Homeschool Music Cooperative, and she is a member of the Starkville Community Band and the student choir at First Presbyterian Church of Jackson.
Rebekah has also served as a House and Senate Page, as a Jackson Symphony League Sub Deb and Ambassador, and as a volunteer for Operation Christmas Child.
Rebekah plans to pursue a degree in floral management at Mississippi State University.
Rebekah has long loved "A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (Proverbs 15:1).