![]() ![]() She taught me some of the things my mother thought I should be able to pick up by reading - things like how to cook, clothes." We have stayed in touch all these years, until Grace died in March 1993. "We moved over to Dearborn and stayed with the dearest family, Joe and Grace Gorgone and their children. She washed all her silk underwear and it shrank.' I did, and it did, but how mean of her not to tell me how to wash it. I heard her say one day to a friend on the phone, 'You should have seen what she did today. "The first room we rented was dark, and the landlady took great pleasure in my mistakes. We went to Grosse Ile Air Base in Michigan and lived in rooms in Wyandotte and Dearborn. Sometimes I could go with him and sometimes I couldn’t. "For the next eight months, we moved around the country while George’s new squadron formed and trained. In an excerpt from the publication, "Barbara Bush: A Memoir," she details her experiences learning how to do laundry, cook and clean during her time in Michigan. It was during one of these ventures that the pair spent time in Wyandotte and Dearborn while he was at the Grosse Ile Air Base. Bush, as he spent 1945 moving around the country while his squadron formed and trained As the nation mourns the loss of former First Lady Barbara Bush, who died in her Houston home at 92 on Tuesday, Michiganders remember the brief time she spent living in metro Detroit.ĭetailed in her 1994 memoir, Bush wrote that she would sometimes travel with her husband, former President George H.W. ![]()
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