Roberta McCain, the straight-talking, sometimes brutally honest mother of the late Sen. John McCain, died on Monday. She was 108 years old.
Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1912, Roberta McCain was an oil heiress. She married Admiral John S. McCain, Jr.
CNN reports the McCain matriarch frequently appeared on the campaign trail when the Arizona senator ran for president in 2008.
When, at age 72, John McCain was asked if he were too old to serve as president, he simply introduced them to his mother, Roberta.
Roberta McCain attended her son's funeral services in Washington after the Arizona Republican died at 81 from brain cancer in 2018.
