Roberta McCain, the straight-talking, sometimes brutally honest mother of the late Sen. John McCain, died on Monday. She was 108 years old.<br />Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1912, Roberta McCain was an oil heiress. She married Admiral John S. McCain, Jr.<br />CNN reports the McCain matriarch frequently appeared on the campaign trail when the Arizona senator ran for president in 2008.<br />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.<br />Roberta McCain attended her son's funeral services in Washington after the Arizona Republican died at 81 from brain cancer in 2018.
