Mary Ragucci was afflicted with arthritis at a very young age.  As a result, her fingers began to freeze into a bent position.  If you look at old photographs of Mary you will see her with her “old nose” as she would describe it.  That’s because she had a operation that straightened both her nose and her fingers.   Unfortunately, as she got older her fingers began to freeze in a bent position again.  I could never understand how she was able to type or push buttons with those “crooked” fingers.   But it didn’t stop her. All her fingers are crooked as the joints of the knuckles are frozen in a bent position due to arthritis.