Lynda Lee Mead

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Lynda Lee Mead

Born	April 17, 1939
Alma mater	University of Mississippi
Occupation	Business
Title	Miss America 1960
Predecessor	Mary Ann Mobley
Successor	Nancy Fleming
Spouse(s)	John J. Shea, Jr.

Lynda Lee Mead Shea (born April 17, 1939, Natchez, Mississippi)^[1] attended the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of Chi Omega sorority, and won the Miss America pageant in 1960.^[2] Her immediate predecessor as Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley (the first Miss America from Mississippi), was Mead's sorority sister at Chi Omega.^{[citation needed]}

Family

Mead married Dr. John J. Shea, Jr.; they have three grown children.^{[citation needed]}

Business life

Lynda Mead Shea is president of Shea Design & French Country Imports in Memphis, Tennessee.^{[citation needed]}

Footnotes

↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
↑ "1960". Time. September 21, 1959. Retrieved 2007-08-31.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Mary Ann Mobley	Miss America 1960	Succeeded by Nancy Fleming
Preceded by Margie Wilson	Miss Mississippi 1959	Succeeded by Betty Porter

v t e Miss America titleholders (1960–1979)

Lynda Lee Mead (1960) Nancy Fleming (1961) Maria Fletcher (1962) Jacquelyn Mayer (1963) Donna Axum (1964) Vonda Kay Van Dyke (1965) Deborah Bryant (1966) Jane Anne Jayroe (1967) Debra Dene Barnes (1968) Judith Anne Ford (1969) Pamela Eldred (1970) Phyllis Ann George (1971) Laurie Lea Schaefer (1972) Terry Meeuwsen (1973) Rebecca Ann King (1974) Shirley Cothran (1975) Tawny Elaine Godin (1976) Dorothy Benham (1977) Susan Perkins (1978) Kylene Barker (1979)

Complete list (1921–1939) (1940–1959) (1960–1979) (1980–1999) (2000–2019)

v t e Mississippi pageant winners

Miss Mississippi	Mary Ann Mobley (1958) Lynda Lee Mead (1959) Cheryl Prewitt (1979) Susan Akin (1985) Nan Sumrall (1985) Toni Seawright (1987) Monica Louwerens (1995) Jennifer Adcock (2002) Jalin Wood (2004) Taryn Foshee (2006) Kimberly Morgan (2007) Christine Kozlowski (2008) Sarah Beth James (2010)

Miss Mississippi USA	Cindy Williams (1986) Jennifer Adcock (2005) Kendra King (2006) Jalin Wood (2007) Leah Laviano (2008) Paromita Mitra (2013)

Miss Mississippi Teen USA	Kristi Addis (1987) Paromita Mitra (2009)

Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen	Jasmine Murray (2007)

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Persondata
Name	Mead, Lynda Lee
Alternative names	Shea, Lynda Lee
Short description	American beauty pageant contestant
Date of birth	April 17, 1939
Place of birth	Natchez, Mississippi
Date of death
Place of death

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