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Betty Ford, Dancer, R.I.P.

Posted on | July 9, 2011 | 5 Comments

That’s her in the center, in 1938. “Dancer” is probably not the first thing you think of when you think of Betty Ford, but “rock singer” is probably not the first thing you think of when you think of me. Yet I was once a rock singer and guitarist, and Betty Ford was once a dancer and model:

Betty Ford, the widow of late President Gerald Ford and a co-founder of an eponymous addiction center in California, has died at the age of 93, according to the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.
Ford died Friday evening with family at her bedside, according to a family member. . . .
Born Elizabeth Anne Bloomer in Chicago, she grew up in Grand Rapids. At the age of 21, she moved to New York City to work as a dancer and model before heading back to the Midwest two years later.
One year after divorcing William Warren after five years of marriage, she wed Gerald Ford — a former star football player at the University of Michigan and a decorated U.S. Navy veteran — in 1948. That year, the woman now known as Betty Ford campaigned with her new husband on his successful campaign to become a U.S. congressman.

R.I.P.

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  • http://zillablog.marezilla.com Zilla of the Resistance

    Lovely tribute. May she rest in peace.
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  • Adriane

    May her family be comforted …

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  • MrPaulRevere

    Sincere condolences to the family. I suppose it would be considered bad form to wish for the death of the Jerry Ford wing of the GOP, so I won’t.

  • Weinberg Kanvan

    You were right — totally bad form –
    when someone loses their mother,
    who happened to be the First Lady,
    it is more appropriate to keep
    snarky commentary to oneself — how about one 
    month waiting period before using death as an
    opportunity to complain?  (Everyone, before & after
    politics, is simply a human being.)

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