Mary Stewart, World War II SPAR Beloved by Coasties, Dead at 101

Chief Yeoman Mary Raissa Stewart, a trailblazing World War II SPAR beloved by the U.S. Coast Guard, has died at the age of 101, roughly a century before she planned to go.

“Mary Stewart lived a life,” said her longtime friend and neighbor on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Peggi Morris, 84. “When she turned 95, she told me, ‘I’m on a five-year plan.’ I said, ‘A five-year plan?’ She said, ‘Well, I’m five years from 100 and I need to start checking things off that I need to do.