While I hope I never get too old to learn and grow, I think it wasn’t so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which to respond to a series of challenges. You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Born - April 8, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois
Parents - William Stephenson Bloomer & Hortense Neahr Bloomer
Married - October 15, 1948 to Gerald Ford (first marriage to William C. Warren in 1942, divorced in 1947)
Children - Michael Gerald (1950 – present),
John Gardner “Jack” (1952 – present),
Steven Meigs (1956 – present),
Susan Elizabeth (1957 – present)
Education – Bennington School of Dance in Bennington, Vermont in summers of 1936 & 1937
Occupation – professional dancer, teacher of dance, model, department store fashion coordinator
Causes - Betty Ford Center, established to treat drug and alcohol abuse and supported the Equal Rights Amendment
Post White House residence - Rancho Mirage, California
Died - July 8, 2011 in Rancho Mirage, California
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