Family Receives Unexpected Mother's Day Blessing: Virginia Higgins Ray Identified as Richland County's 1982 Jane Doe
Richland County's State Hospital Jane Doe was a patient who died on February 15, 1982, after being admitted without a name due to a mental health crisis.
- Richland County's State Hospital Jane Doe was a patient who died on February 15, 1982, after being admitted without a name due to a mental health crisis.
- In spite of an exhaustive campaign to determine her identity at the time, she remained unidentified for more than four decades.
- The woman has now been identified as Virginia Clyde Higgins Ray, a native of Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
- According to her family, Mrs. Ray was a loving, devoted mother and a devout Christian who delighted in her children.