Dorothy Walker Bush
Dorothy Walker Bush (
July 1,
1901 -
November 19,
1992) was the mother of the 41st
President of the United States,
George H. W. Bush, and the grandmother of the 43rd president,
George W. Bush. She was born near Walker's Point, in
York County, Maine.
Walker attended
Miss Porter's School and married
Prescott Sheldon Bush on
August 6,
1921, in
Kennebunkport, Maine. They had five children: George H. W. Bush (named after Dorothy's father,
George Herbert Walker), Prescott Bush, Jr., Jonathan Bush, William Bush, and
Nancy Bush.
Dorothy Walker died in
Greenwich, Connecticut, on November 19, 1992.
