Lynda Lee Mead

Lynda Lee Mead
Lynda Lee Mead in 1960
Born	(1939-04-17) April 17, 1939 Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Mississippi
Occupation	Businesswoman
Title	Miss America 1960
Predecessor	Mary Ann Mobley
Successor	Nancy Fleming
Spouse(s)	John J. Shea, Jr. (?-2015; his death)
Children	5

Lynda Lee Shea (née Mead; born April 17, 1939) attended Natchez High School and the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of Chi Omega sorority, and won the Miss America pageant in 1960.^[1]^[2] Her immediate predecessor as Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley (the first Miss America from Mississippi), was Mead's sorority sister at Chi Omega.^[3]^[4]

Family

Mead married Dr. John J. Shea, Jr.; they have five children.^[5]

Lynda Mead Shea is president of Shea Design & French Country Imports in Memphis, Tennessee.^[6]^[7]

↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
↑ "1960". Time. September 21, 1959. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
↑ Morris, David Rae (2000). My Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 49. ISBN 9781617034398.
↑ Eagles, Charles W. (2009). The Price of Defiance. University of North Carolina Press, 2009. pp. 8–9. ISBN 9780807832738.
↑ White, Stephanie Nerissa (March 31, 2013). "Dr. John Shea Presents his Professional Papers to the Memphis Public Library". The Commercial Appeal. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
↑ Mitchell, Lena (April 30, 1998). "HED:French Country plays dominant role in interior design". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
↑ "Magnolia Hill: a dream realized atop a hill, crowning twenty beautiful rolling acres, the home of Mary and Sam Haskell pays homage to faith, family, and friends.". Mississippi Magazine. The Free Library. September 1, 2010. Retrieved May 30, 2014.

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

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) Jasmine Murray (2014) Hannah Roberts (2015)

Miss Mississippi USA	Cindy Williams (1986) Jennifer Adcock (2005) Kendra King (2006) Jalin Wood (2007) Leah Laviano (2008) Paromita Mitra (2013) Courtney Byrd (2015)

Miss Mississippi Teen USA	Kristi Addis (1987) Grace Gore (2002) Paromita Mitra (2009)

Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen	Jasmine Murray (2007)

Miss America

1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Titleholders Award winners Outstanding Teen MAOT State pageants

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