Barbara Bush, the wife of one U.S. president and mother of another who embodied the old-fashioned sensibility that family comes before careers or politics, has died. She was 92.
She died Tuesday, according to a statement posted by family spokesman Jim McGrath. The cause wasn’t immediately known. Funeral arrangements would be scheduled “as soon as is practical," it said.
President Donald Trump said he and First Lady Melania Trump “join the Nation in celebrating the life of Barbara Bush.”
Bush, who was in “failing health,” decided to no longer seek medical treatment and instead focused on “comfort care,” McGrath had said Sunday in a statement. Her 93-year-old husband, George H.W. Bush, has also had a series of health problems, including a bout of pneumonia that hospitalized him for two weeks last year.
The granddaughter of an Ohio Supreme Court judge, a distant descendant of President Franklin Pierce, the former Barbara Pierce set herself up for a globetrotting life within the Republican Party when she fell for Bush -- “Poppy,” as he was known -- in 1941.
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