Former US First Lady Barbara Bush Dies At 92

Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush, the 37th first lady of the United States, has unfortunately died at the age of 92.

The news was announced in a statement by her family. She had been in and out of hospital but in recent days announced she would instead return home to “focus on comfort care.”

“Our souls are settled because we know hers was,” her son, former president George W. Bush said in the family statement.

He added that his mother had “kept us on our toes and kept us laughing until the end.”

Mrs Bush was the second woman in history to be both a wife and a mother of a United States president. Her husband George HW Bush preceded her son in the Oval Office.

Abigail Adams was the wife of the second president, John Adams, and mother of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams.

For decades, the matriarch of the Bush family has been treated for Graves’ disease, a thyroid condition.

In 2009, she had heart surgery for a severe narrowing of her main heart valve and was hospitalised the previous year for surgery on a perforated ulcer.

She married George HW Bush in 1945 and had six children. They were married longer than any other presidential couple in the history of America.

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– Written by Rekha Kulen

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