Former first lady Barbara Bush died Tuesday. She was 92.

"A former first lady of the United States of America and relentless proponent of family literacy, Barbara Pierce Bush passed away Tuesday, April 17, 2018, at the age of 92," reads a statement from the office of former President George H.W. Bush.
Mrs. Bush served as the country's first lady from 1989 to 1993. She passed away shortly after deciding to forgo further medical treatments for her failing health. Having been hospitalized numerous times while battling congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she decided Sunday that she wanted to be "surrounded by a family she adores," according to an earlier statement released by Mr. Bush's office.

"It will not surprise those who know her that Barbara Bush has been a rock in the face of her failing health, worrying not for herself -- thanks to her abiding faith -- but for others," the statement continued. "She is surrounded by a family she adores and appreciates the many kind messages and especially the prayers she is receiving." In January 2017, Mrs. Bush and her husband were hospitalized at the same time. She was being treated for bronchitis and the nation's 41st president was being treated for pneumonia.

Mrs. Bush is one of only two first ladies in the history of the country who is also the mother of a president. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, a founding father of the nation and its second president, was the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president.
Mrs. Bush is the mother of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida who ran for president of the United States in 2016.

During her tenure as the nation's first lady, Mrs. Bush, the mother of six children, was a champion for global literacy and continued the work after she and her husband left the White House. In 1989, she formed the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, which encourages parents to read to their children.
"Literacy fits in with so many other things," she once told The Chicago Tribune. "If more people could read, fewer people would have AIDS. There would be less homelessness. I'm absolutely convinced of that."

Descendent of a president

Barbara Pierce Bush was born in New York City, New York, on June 8, 1925, to Marvin and Pauline Pierce. Her father, a magazine publishing executive, was a descendant of Franklin Pierce, a Democrat and the nation's 14th U.S. president who served from 1853 to 1857. Her mother was the daughter of an Ohio Supreme Court justice and was active in civic causes.

The third of four children, Bush later recalled a childhood where her parents would gather and read around the fireplace, fostering her early love of reading. She graduated high school from the all-girls private Ashley Hall boarding school in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1940s and enrolled in Smith College, a women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. At Smith, which was racially integrated, Mrs. Bush became captain of the freshman soccer team, but she dropped out of college in 1945 at the beginning of her sophomore year. She later admitted that she was more interested in her future husband than in her studies.

She had met George Herbert Walker Bush at age 16, while at a Christmastime dance at the Round Hill Country Club in Greenwich, Connecticut. The pair were immediately attracted to each other and began exchanging letters, even as Mr. Bush completed his training to become the then-youngest pilot in the Navy. He named his bomber plane "Barbara" in her honor. The pair were engaged shortly before Mr. Bush left to fly in World War II, and they wed Jan. 6, 1945, while he was on leave.

Mr. and Mrs. Bush celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary on Jan. 6. In an alumni magazine from Smith College, Mrs. Bush said the marriage has endured because of the couple's love for each other. "I am still old and still in love with the man I married 72 years ago," she said in the interview published in "Smith Alumnae Quarterly" earlier this month.

"George Bush has given me the world," she also said in the magazine. "He is the best -- thoughtful and loving."

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RIP to the dead

Wife to a US President and Mother to another.

One of the children, Jeb Bush, was at various times the Governor in Florida

omaolowo:
Wife to a US President and Mother to another.

One of the children, Jeb Bush, was at various times the Governor in Florida

Yes, Jebb was the Governor of Florida in 1999/2000 when his brother, George was a Presidential candidate and eventual President back then. George was also a former Governor of Texas for 8yrs and also spent another 8yrs as the U.S President. So was their father, Former Governor and President.

The IAH airport in Houston, TX was renamed after their father even though they bear the same name: George Bush

I guess you can say Barbara was wife and mother to several Governors and Presidents.

May her gentle soul R.I.P

Need to travel to US someday

RIP

RIP to the Bush Matriarch.
She lived well and long.

R.I.P to her. May God grant the family strength to bear the loss.

Condolence to her family


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Sad but I saw it coming after she gathered her family together but oyibo dey live long sha oh benefits of good health care system not here that life expectancy is worst than countries at war.

Wetin? You mean bush f*****k this woman for over 70years?

Thíckcok01:
Wetin? You mean bush f*****k this woman for over 70years?

Smh at you

Life is not only about f***ing...

Get your head out of the gutter

Who she epp??

Omoh... c biography.....



Greed nd selfishness no go let any nigerian get this type of bio....

DuBLINGreenb:
Sad but I saw it coming after she gathered her family together but oyibo dey live long shall oh benefits of good health care system not here that life expectancy is worst than countries at war Syrians have higher life expectancy than us. They have about 7 living ex

Oyinbos also pay heavily for their health care system to function well...either in the form of very high taxes, or in the form of very high hospital bills./insurance premiums.

In Nigeria we want what they have in the whiteman's land...at budgets for health that are less than 2-5 billion US dollars. Impossible.

RIP

Follygunners:


Yes, Jebb was the Governor of Florida in 1999/2000 when his brother, George was a Presidential candidate and eventual President back then. George was also a former Governor of Texas for 8yrs and also spent another 8yrs as the U.S President. So was their father, Former Governor and President.

The IAH airport in Houston, TX was renamed after their father even though they bear the same name: George Bush

I guess you can say Barbara was wife and mother to several Governors and Presidents.

May her gentle soul R.I.P

I don't think, her soul was gentle, to have put up with, such strong men

RIP to a wonderful mother, wife n woman.

Follygunners:


Yes, Jebb was the Governor of Florida in 1999/2000 when his brother, George was a Presidential candidate and eventual President back then. George was also a former Governor of Texas for 8yrs and also spent another 8yrs as the U.S President. So was their father, Former Governor and President.

The IAH airport in Houston, TX was renamed after their father even though they bear the same name: George Bush

I guess you can say Barbara was wife and mother to several Governors and Presidents.

May her gentle soul R.I.P

Her womb was blessed....

Ovoko! Jeb Bush.... Low energy

RIP MA! you raised George well!!

very powerful family



they have controlled GOVT at all levels

Person nor Go hear word for C N N today.

RIP one of ur son is here

If na african familiy get two presidents and governors oyinbo go dey kick . father and son both attached thier former ally iraq. War monger family

FULFILLED DESTINY

Sad

RIP