Supercentenarian Profile

Sally Hobart

Born:

1915-12-27

Boston, Massachusetts

United States

Current Residence:

Mystic, Connecticut

United States

✔ Age Certified by LongeviQuest

Selina “Sally” Hobart (née Strong) is an American supercentenarian whose age has been validated by LongeviQuest.

BIOGRAPHY

Sally Hobart was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 27 December 1915 to parents Harold Clark Strong (1885-1977) and Selina Kinney (1885-1986). She was the eldest of four children; the other three were boys: Harold Clark Strong Jr. (1917-2002), Lester McIntosh Strong (1921-1981), and John Strong (1925-1952). Her family was reportedly descended from Revolutionary War figure Nathan Hale. The family grew up on a farm in Scarborough, New York. She attended the Westover boarding school in Middlebury but did not go on to college.

After leaving boarding school, she was eager to move to New York City, where she pursued training in ballet and visual art. She explored a range of artistic pursuits and spent three years at the New York School of Interior Design, training that proved valuable as she moved from house to house throughout her life. She spent many years pursuing her passion for painting, studying at the Art Students League and at one time belonging to the National Academy of Design, but only later—at StoneRidge—did she hold her first two exhibitions.

Hobart married for the first time in 1942, with Kingsley Swan (1912-1985), with whom she had three children: Kingsley Swan Jr. (born 1943), Pamela Swan Connell (born 1946), and Peter Clark Swan (1948-2013). She remarried in 1967 to Aaron Addison Hobart (1919-2002).

She worked at the print department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, her only job.

She lived in Vermont and Rhode Island before settling in Mystic, Connecticut. In later life, arthritis limited her ability to paint, and she turned her primary attention to gardening.

In 2016 at age 100, Hobart returned to the Westover School for the first time since her graduation and was recognized as one of the school’s oldest living alumni. As a centenarian, she held her first two art exhibitions at StoneRidge.