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1. Aug. 2022 · Mother of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford. Gerald was the oldest of her four sons. Cause of death: Coronary Thrombosis.
16. Juli 2013 · Mother: Dorothy Ayer (Gardner) King Marriage: Betty (Bloomer) Ford (October 15, 1948-December 26, 2006, his death) Children: Susan Elizabeth, Steven Meigs, John “Jack” Gardner and Michael Gerald
After their son Leslie Lynch King married Dorothy Ayer Gardner on September 7, 1912, the young couple moved into the house with his parents, as was typical of the times. Their son, named Leslie Lynch King, Jr. was born July 14, 1913. Due to domestic abuse, Dorothy Gardner separated from Leslie King when Leslie, Jr. was only 16 days old.
Gerald Ford Historical Photographs, 1915. President Gerald R. Ford was the son of Leslie Lynch King and his wife Dorothy Ayer Gardner, who divorced soon after the birth of their only child. Their son was known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr., until his mother married Gerald R. Ford, Sr. in 1916, after which he went by the name Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
His mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, soon divorced the boy's father—a wife-beating alcoholic—and moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. There she met Gerald Rudolph Ford, the owner of a paint store, and married him in 1916. Dorothy called her son "Junie," which soon became "Jerry" out of affection for the boy's new father-figure. Leslie King, Jr ...
Mother of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford. Gerald was the oldest of her four sons. Cause of death: Coronary Thrombosis.
Ford was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14, 1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska, where his parents lived with his paternal grandparents. He was the only child of Dorothy Ayer Gardner and Leslie Lynch King Sr., a wool trader.
