Roberta McCain, mother of the late John McCain, has died at 108.
Cindy McCain, her daughter-in-law and widow of the late Arizona senator, made the announcement on Twitter.
“It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my wonderful Mother In-law, Roberta McCain. I couldn’t have asked for a better role model or a better friend. She joins her husband Jack, her son John and daughter Sandy,” McCain wrote in her Monday afternoon tweet.
Roberta McCain was born in Oklahoma in 1912. In 1933, she married John McCain Jr., a Navy admiral in a line of distinguished naval officers. Her husband died in 1981.
She gave birth to her son John in 1936. She also had another son, Joe, and a daughter, Sandy, and has 12 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Roberta also had a twin sister, Rowena, who died at 99 in 2011.
Roberta McCain attended her son John's funeral, held at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, in 2018. He died at the age of 81.
John McCain served two terms in the House of Representatives before becoming a senator for Arizona in 1986. He would hold the position for the rest of his life.
McCain also ran for president twice, first in 2000, and again in 2008, in which year he became the Republican nominee and lost to Barack Obama.
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