In 2010, at age 53, Bales went into sudden cardiac arrest while exercising on an elliptical machine. She has since divorced and relocated to McKinney, Texas. In 1997, they moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they lived for nearly 12 years before returning to Tulsa in 2009. She and her second husband lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after their marriage on July 25, 1989. In 1984, Bales and her mother, Betty Ford, helped launch National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a joint appearance in an ad campaign. 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. Susan married attorney Vaden Bales in 1989, from whom she was divorced in 2018. Susan and Charles Vance were divorced in 1988. They have two daughters, Tyne Mary Vance (born 1980) and Heather Elizabeth Vance (born 1983). For a time, they operated a private security company in Washington. Secret Service agents, on February 10, 1979. Ford married Charles Vance, one of her father's former U.S. In 2018, Bales represented the Ford family at the funerals of President George H.W. Ford on July 22, 2017, with Bales in attendance to give the order, "Man our ship, and bring her to life." The ship was commissioned as USS Gerald R. Ford and in recognition of her "extraordinary service as CVN 78 Ship Sponsor", she was named an honorary naval aviator by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson, thus becoming only the 31st person to receive this honor, and the first woman ever to be so honored. On April 8, 2016, during a change of command ceremony aboard USS Gerald R. On November 9, 2013, she christened the Gerald R. Ford and the Ford family at the naming of the Gerald R. In July 2007, Bales represented her mother at the funeral service of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in the same month, she and her husband Vaden Bales represented Mrs. Postal Service's commemorative stamp honoring President Ford. On June 11, 2007, she delivered remarks in Washington at the unveiling of the U.S. On November 14, 2009, Bales participated in the keel laying for the ship. That same day, Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter announced that Bales had been named the carrier's ceremonial sponsor. On January 16, 2007, Bales spoke at a naming ceremony at the Pentagon for the aircraft carrier CVN-78, which was officially named the Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) in Newport News, Virginia on November 9, 2013 In addition, on January 1, she assisted her mother in receiving dignitaries and official visitors who had come to Blair House, the presidential guest house in Washington, to pay their respects.īales christens Gerald R. She read a passage from the Epistle of James during the funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral, and her daughter Tyne Berlanga offered one of the prayers during the funeral service at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2002, Bales wrote, with Laura Hayden, a novel, Double Exposure: A First Daughter Mystery, with a contemporary White House setting in 2005, a sequel, Sharp Focus, was published.īales attended the Decem– Janustate funeral services and ceremonies for her father with her mother, and over the course of several days greeted mourners while President Ford's casket lay in state on the Lincoln Catafalque in the Capitol Rotunda and during the public repose at the Gerald R. She succeeded her mother, who remained a board member. In 1992, she became a member of the board of the Betty Ford Center and in 2005 became chair of the organization. She was hired to shoot publicity stills for the film Jaws 2, with many appearing in Ray Loynd's book Jaws 2 Log. Ford and Siamese cat "Shan Shein" at the White House in 1974 Career īales trained as a photographer and worked as a photojournalist for the Associated Press, Newsweek, Money Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, the Topeka Capital-Journal, the Omaha Sun and also freelanced.
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