Born in 1925 to Pauline and Marvin Pierce, Barbara Pierce grew up in Rye, New York. She met George H. W. Bush, then known as "Poppy," in 1941, at a Christmas dance in Greenwich, Connecticut.

I mean, my grandmother, Barbara Bush, had a sewn, needle-pointed pillow on her couch that said, 'Reading is sexy.' Which I've remade and put on my couch," she says with a laugh. "I remember ...

Born in 1925 to Pauline and Marvin Pierce, Barbara Pierce grew up in Rye, New York. She met George H. W. Bush, then known as "Poppy," in 1941, at a Christmas dance in Greenwich, Connecticut.