Former First Lady Barbara Bush Dies at 92
Former First Lady Barbara Bush died in Houston on Tuesday.
She was 92.
Bush served as Second Lady of the United States to President George H.W.
Bush from 1981-1989, and was First Lady from 1989-1993.The office of George H.W.
Bush released a statement announcing her death.
She has been battling congestive heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and had recently decided not to seek any further treatment.Barbara was born in New York City on June 8, 1925.
She met her husband, former President George H.W.
Bush, at a dance in Massachusetts in 1941 when she was 16 years old.
After dating for a year and a half, the couple got engaged before he went off to World War II to serve as a Navy torpedo bomber pilot.
When he returned on leave, Barbara dropped out of the school she had been attended, Smith College in Northampton, Mass.
They got