Mary McCoy, 85, hung out with Elvis, performed in a prison alongside rodeo bulls and fought off unwanted attention from advertisers on her Texas radio show
Sat 18 Mar 2023 06.00 GMT
Mary McCoy has broken her neck, had multiple bouts with Covid-19 and grieved the deaths of two husbands. But none of that could get the 85-year-old off the airwaves she has been on for more than 70 years. The transition from vinyl to purely digital control panels was no match either.
“I have seen it all,” the radio presenter from Texas told the Guardian, weeks before the end of her 72nd year in her role. “And you know what? I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.”
Guinness World Records has confirmed McCoy as the longest-serving female radio disc jockey. She passed Maruja Venegas Salinas of Peru, who died in…
