Amid growing media controversy and scrutiny, Williams resigned as Miss America in July 1984(under pressure from the Miss America Organization),
and was replaced by first runner-up Miss New Jersey Suzette Charles.
In 1980 in Lake Jackson, Quintanilla, Jr. opened his first Tex-Mex restaurant, Papa Gayo's,
where Selena and her siblings Abraham III(on bass guitar) and Suzette Quintanilla(on drums) would often perform.