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. 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. References 1939 births Living people American businesspeople People from Memphis, Tennessee People from Natchez, Mississippi Miss America 1960s delegates Miss America winners University of Mississippi alumni Miss Mississippi winners 20th-century American people