| Mary Keir | |
 Keir receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at her care home on 17 December 2020 at age 108 | |
| Birth: | 3 March 1912 St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK |
| Age: | 109 years, 318 days |
| Country: |  UK
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| Centenarian | |
Mary Letitia Keir (born 3 March 1912) is a British centenarian who was the oldest known person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine until various older people were vaccinated in later days. She is currently the oldest known person living in Wales.
Biography
Mary Keir was born in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales on 3 March 1912. She later lived in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire, Wales. She worked as a ward sister at Llandough Hospital in Penarth, Wales.
In either 2011 or 2012, Kier moved into a care home in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Coincidentally, supercentenarian Gwenllian Davies (1905–2016) was also a resident of the same home. On 17 December 2020 at 2.30pm, Keir received her first dose of the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine, making her one of the first care home residents in Wales to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Keir became the oldest known living person in Wales on 9 September 2021, following the death of 110-year-old Amy Hawkins.
Gallery
References
- Wales' oldest woman - known to all as Auntie Gwennie - turns 110 Wales Online, 3 October 2015
- Rhan 1 - Sgwrs Mary Keir BBC Radio Cymru, 15 March 2017
- 108-year-old woman becomes one of the first care home residents in Wales to receive COVID-19 vaccine ITV, 18 December 2020
- 109th birthday Facebook Post, 3 March 2021
- Living people 107+ Oldest in Britain
