Phimmanou Joi Opboune, known within the Wisconsin GLBT community as Miss Kitanah Kim, passed away today, December 6, 2008, as the result of a car crash in Roseville, Minnesota. He was born in Thailand July 4, 1980.

Phimannou was a dean's-list student majoring in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. In the drag persona of Miss Kitanah Kim, she performed in pageants and shows throughout the upper midwest, most recently becoming the promoter of the Mr. and Miss Chippewa Valley U.S. of A. preliminaries in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. She is survived by her family in Wausau, Wisconsin as well as her extended devoted family of drag queens across the state. Her brassy personality and humorous antics will be greatly missed by everyone's lives she touched.

Memorials can be posted on Kitanah Kim's MySpace page.