Lynda Lee Shea (née Mead; born April 17, 1939) is an American businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder who was Miss Mississippi 1959 and Miss America 1960. Shea attended Natchez High School and the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of Chi Omega sorority.U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. Her immediate predecessor as Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley (the first Miss America from Mississippi), was Mead's sorority sister at Chi Omega.
Family Mead married Dr. John J. Shea Jr. in 1964; they have three adult children. Dr. Shea died in 2015.
Business life Shea is president of Shea Design & French Country Imports in Memphis, Tennessee.
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