Anne O'Connell Spragins, a homemaker and former radio engineer, died of cancer complications Feb. 20 at Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson. She was 88. Born Margaret Anne O'Connell in Baltimore, she was a 1937 Towson High School graduate. She went on to study at Eton Burdette Business School and later took classes at Maryland Institute College of Art, Loyola College, the Berlitz School of Languages and Goucher College.

During World War II, she was a Federal Communications Commission-licensed engineer at radio station WFBR. She coordinated the national network feeds of the D-Day landings and the German and Japanese surrender announcements. After the war, she was the executive secretary to the president of Davison Chemical Co.

Mrs. Spragins established a Girl Scout troop at Northwood Elementary School. She enjoyed skeet shooting, horseback riding and figure skating and was a member of the Ice Skating Club of Baltimore.

She was a guide at the Evergreen and Homewood historic houses. Mrs. Spragins was also a member of the Woman's Club of Roland Park.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 Allegheny Ave. in Towson, where she was communicant.

Survivors include a son, Samuel H. Spragins III of West Chester, Pa.; a daughter, Margaret S. Harding of Mason Neck, Va.; and five grandchildren. Her husband of 40 years, Samuel Hamilton Spragins Jr., died in 1990.