Mary Josephine Ray

Mary Josephine Ray née Arsenault (born May 17, 1895) is currently the world's third-oldest verified living person. Ray is also the second oldest person living in the United States. She is the oldest recorded person ever to live in New Hampshire, ahead of Nellie Spencer (1869–1982) who lived to age 113 years 81 days. Ray is also the oldest person ever recorded born in Prince Edward Island and currently the third-oldest person ever born in Canada. Since the death of Maria de Jesus from Portugal, she is also the oldest person of European descent in the world.

As of May 2009, Ray is listed as one of the 70 longest lived people ever.

Family

Ray has two sons, both living: Robert of Pensacola, Florida and Donald of Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Her eight grandchildren are also still alive. Her granddaughter, Katherine, has been known to help her grandmother as often as possible. In all, Ray has two sons, eight grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

Hobbies

Ray continues to follow, as much as possible, the Red Sox baseball team. After watching baseball games, she often has cake and ice cream. At her 108th birthday celebration, she was greeted with the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and a cake with the Red Sox symbol on it. Ray has continued to buy Red Sox merchandise, and has commented that she intends to continue doing so. Fred Hale, who lived to be 113 years, 354 days old, was also a fan of the team.

See also

• List of living supercentenarians
• List of Canadian supercentenarians
• List of the verified oldest people
• Oldest people
• Supercentenarian

References

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