Judy Agnew

Born Elinor Isabel Judefind in Baltimore, Maryland, Agnew was daughter of William Lee Judefind, a chemist, and his wife, the former Ruth Elinor Schafer. Her paternal grandfather was a Methodist minister. Agnew confessed in an interview with Parade magazine that her father had believed college education to be wasted on women, so in lieu of attending college, Agnew worked as a filing clerk. After meeting again at the Maryland Casualty Company, the couple went to a movie on their first date together, and bought chocolate milkshakes afterward. Four months later, they became engaged. ==Marriage to Spiro Agnew==

She married Agnew on May 27, 1942, in Baltimore; he had graduated from Army Officer Candidate School two days earlier. They had four children: Pamela Lee Agnew (Mrs. Robert E. DeHaven), James Rand Agnew, Susan Scott Agnew (Mrs. Colin Neilson Macindoe), and Elinor Kimberly Agnew. While living in Annapolis with her husband and their four children, Agnew served as the president of her local PTA, and volunteered as both an assistant Girl Scout troop leader An Episcopalian, she and her family belonged to St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Annapolis. When speaking to the press, Agnew spoke in what she called a "Baltimorese" accent. She became known by the local press for serving cocktails in glass peanut butter jars, although she once publicly attempted to refute this claim. She was the First Lady of Maryland from January 1967 to January 1969. ==Second Lady of the United States==

Reportedly, Agnew's reaction to Richard Nixon naming her husband as his running mate was a tearful, "can you get out of it?" When asked by the press what she thought of her husband's new position, she told several publications that she was "trying to keep the ashtrays clean." Her husband played piano for the guests, who left before the meal was served. In 1973, Spiro Agnew resigned from his position as Vice President of the United States, pleading nolo contendere to charges of income tax evasion. He was charged with having reported a joint income of $26,099 for both him and his wife in 1967, although their correct income had been $55,599. On the day of her husband's resignation, Judy Agnew broke down at a luncheon and cried among her guests. == Later life ==

and Judy Agnew at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium, Maryland On September 16, 1996, Spiro Agnew collapsed and died the next day from acute undiagnosed leukemia at the age of 77. Judy outlived him by almost 16 years and died on June 20, 2012, in Rancho Mirage, California, at the age of 91. She is buried next to husband Spiro at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. ==References==