Susan Ford

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Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales (born July 6, 1957), an American author, photojournalist, and former chair of the board of the Betty Ford Center for alcohol and drug abuse, is the daughter of Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States.

Personal life

Susan E. Ford married Charles Vance, one of her father's former U.S. Secret Service agents, on February 10, 1979. For a time, they operated a private security company in Washington. They have two daughters, Tyne Mary Vance (born 1980) and Heather Elizabeth Vance (born 1983). Susan and Charles Vance were divorced in 1988. Susan married attorney Vaden Bales in 1989, from whom she was divorced in 2018.

In Betty Ford's Betty – A Glad Awakening, her mother credits Susan with having orchestrated an intervention in 1982 after the Ford family became concerned with her drinking, addictions and behavior. In 1984, Bales and her mother, Betty Ford, helped launch National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a joint appearance in an ad campaign.

She and her second husband lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after their marriage on July 25, 1989. In 1997, they moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they lived for nearly 12 years before returning to Tulsa in 2009. She has since divorced and relocated to McKinney, Texas. In 2010, at age 53, Bales went into sudden cardiac arrest while exercising on an elliptical machine. She had no prior knowledge that she had heart disease. Bales says she was "extremely lucky" that while she was in the gym, a surgeon was "walking up the steps" and "shocked" her back. She was revived with an automated external defibrillator. After her recovery, she was given a heart stent and pacemaker. She spoke of the experience on June 4, 2013 at the American Heart Association's Heart Ball in Grand Rapids.

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Career

Bales began as a photographer and spent time as a photojournalist for the Associated Press, Newsweek, Money Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, the Topeka Capital-Journal, the Omaha Sun, and even freelanced. She was hired to film publicity stills for Jaws 2 Log by Ray Loynd, with several of them appearing in Jaws 2 Log by Ray Loynd.

She joined the Betty Ford Center in 1992 as a member of the board and as chair in 2005. She succeeded her mother, who remained a board member, as she succeeded her mother.

Bales wrote a book in 2002 with Laura Hayden, titled Double Exposure: A First Daughter Mystery in a contemporary White House setting; in 2005, a sequel, Sharp Focus, was published;

Bales was in attendance at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on December 26, 2006 – January 3, 2007. During the funeral service at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, she read a passage from the Epistle of James, as well as her daughter Tyne Berlanga. In addition, she assisted her mother in ensuring that dignitaries and official visitors who had arrived at Blair House, Washington's presidential guest house, to pay their respects on January 1.

On January 16, 2007, Bales attended the unveiling of the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier CVN-78 at the Pentagon. Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter revealed that Bales had been designated as the carrier's ceremonial sponsor on the same day. Bales took part in the ship's keel laying on November 14, 2009.

She made remarks in Washington on June 11, 2007, the first lady to speak in the United States, on the unveiling of the United States eti. President Ford is commemorated on a commemorative stamp by the Postal Service. Bales spoke for her mother at the funeral of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in July 2007, and she and her husband Valiant Bales appeared alongside Mr. Ford and the Ford family at the dedication of the Gerald R. Ford Post Office in Vail, Colorado, in July 2007.

With a bottle of sparkling water, she christened the Gerald R. Ford on November 9, 2013.

She was named an honorary naval aviator by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson on April 8, 2016, becoming the first woman to be honoured in this regard. On July 22, 2017, Gerald R. Ford was commissioned as USS Gerald R. Ford, with Bales on board to order, "Man our ship and bring her to life."

Bales portrayed the Ford family at President George H.W.'s funeral in 2018. Barbara Bush, the First Lady of the United States.

On February 10, 1979, Susan E. Ford married Charles Vance, one of her father's former U.S. Secret Service agents. They ran a private security firm in Washington for a time. Tyne Mary Vance (born 1980) and Heather Elizabeth Vance (born 1983). Susan and Charles Vance were divorced in 1988. Susan married lawyer Vaden Bales in 1989, the first woman to whom she was divorced in 2018.

Susan is credited with orchestrating an intervention in 1982, Betty Ford's Betty – A Glad Awakening, after the Ford family became worried about her drinking, heroin, and behaviour. With a joint appearance in an ad campaign in 1984, Bales and her mother, Betty Ford, helped launch National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Since marrying in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 25, 1989, she and her second husband were living. They migrated to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1997, where they lived for nearly 12 years before returning to Tulsa in 2009. She has since divorced and relocated to McKinney, Texas. Although exercising on an elliptical machine, Bales suffered sudden cardiac arrest at 53 years old in 2010. She had no idea she had heart disease before. Bales says she was "very lucky" that a surgeon was "walking up the steps" and "shocked" her back while she was in the gym. With an automated external defibrillator, she was revived. She was given a heart stent and a pacemaker after her recovery. On June 4, 2013, she spoke about the experience at the American Heart Association's Heart Ball in Grand Rapids, Illinois.

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