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 Linda Spear
CHEVY CHASE, Md. — Linda Mahaffey Spear, 68, of Chevy Chase and Dewey Beach passed away Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. She had fought a long, courageous and ultimately successful battle against lung cancer. Shortly thereafter, she was stricken with a very serious respiratory distress syndrome with fluid in much of her lungs. After several weeks of intensive hospital care and valiant struggle, she succumbed.
Linda was born March 8, 1944, in Washington, D.C., the beloved daughter of Paul Thomas Mahaffey and Edna Springston Mahaffey. She grew up in Pocomoke City and graduated from Pocomoke High School in 1962. She was an outstanding student and active in sports and extracurricular activities. She was crowned Miss Pocomoke High School her senior year. She attended Western Maryland College, where she met and married her loving husband, Joseph Carroll Spear, and graduated in 1966 with an AB degree. Among her many activities at Western Maryland, she was an editor of the college newspaper for three years. Her outgoing personality and leadership made her many lifelong friends.
Linda taught high school English for three years, and then joined AT&T (later Verizon), where she rose through managerial and executive positions before her retirement in 1991. She was selected by corporate management for a prestigious six month executive development program at Harvard Business School.
Linda loved to travel, and she and Joe drove all across America in their Volkswagen bus, along with their dog and cat. Their Dewey Beach family was formed when they, along with five other couples, purchased beachfront property and developed it into a beautiful group of vacation homes. They remained very close friends for the rest of her life.
Linda was preceded in death by her father, Paul T. Mahaffey, and her beloved husband, Joe.
She is survived by her mother, Edna Springston Mahaffey of Pocomoke City; her brother, David Paul Mahaffey and his wife, Yun, of Purcellville, Va.; her nephew, David John Mahaffey his wife, Michelle, and children, Jonathan, Paul and Madeline of Westminster, Md.; her niece, Elizabeth Mahaffey See and her husband, Steve, and children, Bryan and Megan of Sykesville, Md.; her sister-in-law, Charlotte Nickerson of Hurlock; three sons, Lynn B. Thomas Jr. and his wife, Susan, and their children, Paige and Beth, Rick J. Thomas and his wife, Kim, and John C. Thomas-Mason and his wife, Ashley, and their children Gabriel and Adan; and a sister-in-law, Dixie Spear of Baltimore.
Services will be officiated by the Rev. Dr. Sally Dolch Monday at 1 p.m. at Bethany Methodist Church, 205 Market St. in Pocomoke City, where friends and family may call one half hour prior to the service. Interment will follow in Bethany Cemetery on Third Street. A fellowship dinner will be held at the church following the interment. Flowers are welcome or friends may make contributions to their favorite charity in Linda's memory.
Arrangements are in the care of Holloway Funeral Home, 107 Vine St., Pocomoke City, Md. 21851. To send condolences to the family visit www.hollowayfh.com.
Published in The Daily Times from July 20 to July 21, 2012
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