Betty Bloomer at age 18, 1936 Betty Ford was born Elizabeth Anne Bloomer on April 8, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois, the third child and only daughter of Hortense (née Neahr; 1884-1948) and William Stephenson Bloomer Sr. (1874-1934), who was a travelling salesman for Royal Rubber Co. [3] She was called Betty as a child. Hortense and William married on November 9, 1904, in Chicago. Betty's two ...
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