Barbara Bush, matriarch of US political clan, dies at 92

Bloomberg

Barbara Bush, the wife of one US 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 on April 17, according to a statement from family spokesman Jim McGrath. No cause was given.
Bush, who was in “failing health,” decided to no longer seek medical treatment and instead focussed on “comfort care,” McGrath had said. Her 93-year-old husband, George H.W. Bush, has also had a series of health problems.
Her son, former President George W. Bush, said in a statement his family is saddened by the death of his mother “but our souls are settled because we know hers was.” He called her “a fabulous First Lady and a woman unlike any other who brought levity, love and literacy to millions.” President Donald Trump said he and First Lady Melania Trump “join the nation in celebrating the life of Barbara Bush.”
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 in 1941. She embarked on a course that would take her to the UN and China, the vice president’s residence in Washington during Ronald Reagan’s two terms as president and the White House as first lady from 1989 to 1993.