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OnDaFence 36M/44M
44267 posts
4/19/2018 6:41 pm

Last Read:
4/22/2018 7:20 pm

Barbara Remembered



This pretty much sums up the Barbara Bush of my memory.

OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/19/2018 6:44 pm

Barbara Pierce was born in New York City on June 8, 1925


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/19/2018 6:45 pm

George Bush, a Navy torpedo bomber pilot, named three of his planes after her: Barbara, Barbara II, and Barbara III.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/19/2018 6:46 pm

January 6, 1945, they were married at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/19/2018 6:48 pm

Family literacy was Barbara Bush's cause as First Lady, and she called it "the most important issue we have".


bychance4709 61M

4/19/2018 7:08 pm

Class with sass - a winning combo


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/19/2018 7:27 pm

Her and Millie showing the White House!


Hungr4Yungr 75M
5766 posts
4/19/2018 9:07 pm

Now she is a woman with a huge legacy that will go on forever.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/19/2018 9:26 pm

    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    Now she is a woman with a huge legacy that will go on forever.
I'd say from what I have read she was the power behind the presidency, and a force in a second.


wcfields2009 78M
1355 posts
4/20/2018 6:53 am

I was never a big fan of the Bush family, but Barbara Bush was a true gentlewoman. She did some humanitarian things that never got publicized, so she was greatly underappreciated.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

4/21/2018 7:40 am

    Quoting wcfields2009:
    I was never a big fan of the Bush family, but Barbara Bush was a true gentlewoman. She did some humanitarian things that never got publicized, so she was greatly underappreciated.
Education is the means to end poverty. Her tireless support of education went practically to get dying day.