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Show SHE TOURED WORLD AT 85 Elderly Lady Enjoyed Trip, and Lived Two Years to Talk About It. Mrs. Mary J. Scroggs, who enjoyed the unique distinction of having traveled trav-eled around the world and enjoyed every mile of the tour when she was eighty-five years old, died at the residence res-idence of her son. Dr. G. A. Scroggs, at Los Angeles. Particularly free from illness throughout her life, she was ill but a short time before death."She was eighty-seven years old. Two years ago Mrs. Scroggs decided decid-ed to take a trip around the globe. Many friends had known that she longed to make the tour, but were amazed when she announced that she had completed arrangements. Rugged and with a mind particularly receptive and alert, she traveled through the alien lands with the greatest enjoyment, enjoy-ment, and gathered an unusually large fund of information. She was accompanied by her daugh-ter-in-iaw, Mrs. Doctor Scroggs, and her niece, Miss Elizabeth P. Bailey. The oldest woman ever to make such a trip, according to. the records of all transportation companies, she was not ill from ocean travel, and did not miss a day from sightseeing. Mrs. Scroggs went to Los Angeles 12 years ago from Beverly, Pa., having hav-ing lived the greater part of her life in that community. |