Roberta McCain Dies at 108; Mother of the Senator and His Beacon John McCain credited to her his will to survive as a prisoner of war. She later campaigned for him in his 2008 bid for the...

Roberta McCain was a young woman when her three children were born, later telling the Oklahoma paper that she was “too young and irresponsible to know you were supposed to worry about them.

Roberta was 18 and a University of Southern California freshman when she met Ensign John S. McCain Jr. A shipmate was giving her a tour of their battleship, the USS Oklahoma, homeported at Long...

Roberta McCain (née Wright; 7 February 1912 – 12 October 2020) was a notable American centenarian, known for being the mother of the late Senator John McCain III, US Senator, Vietnam War veteran and the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.

She was the widow of US Naval Admiral John S. McCain Jr. and mother of politician John S. McCain III and stage actor and journalist Joe McCain. Her father became wealthy from the oil industry and became a stay-at-home dad and the family traveled constantly.

Roberta McCain, the mother of 2008 Republican presidential nominee and longtime Arizona Senator John McCain, has died, Cindy McCain announced on Monday. She was 108 years old. She was 108 years ...

Roberta McCain, an independent-minded oil heiress who was married to one of the Navy’s highest-ranking officers and who displayed characteristic pluck when she took to the presidential campaign ...

Friends and family and even the TV journalists who long covered her all offered remembrances on Monday of the 108-year-old McCain family matriarch Roberta McCain, who died at home in Washington, D...