From left, Dove Morgan Schmidt (Ms. Oklahoma), Sharon Peters (Ms. Michigan), Catherine Szerszen (Ms. Kentucky), Marguerite Rose (Ms. Rhode Island), and Linda Allbright (Ms. Washington) watch the performances backstage at the 2016 National Ms. Senior America Pageant in Atlantic City.The Ms. Senior America pageant, and others like it, celebrate women of a certain age — “between 60 and death,” one contestant joked.