Nancy Reagan
Former first lady Nancy Reagan has died, according to The Reagan Foundation. She was 94.
Born Nancy Robbins on July 6, 1921, at Sloane Hospital, in Flushing, Queens, her mother, Edith, was a socialite and actress while her father, Kenneth Robbins, was a used car salesman.
She was only 6 years old when her parents divorced. Her mother, busy pursuing a theatrical career in New York City, sent her to live with an aunt and uncle, Virginia and Audley Galbraith, in Bethesda, Maryland.
When her mother married neurosurgeon Loyal Davis, he legally adopted young Nancy, who took his last name and considered him her true father.
Nancy Reagan is the only First Lady to be legally adopted.
Nancy Reagan last returned to the White House in 2009, wearing a bright red pant suit, walking with a cane and clinging to the arm of President Obama as he signed a proclamation establishing the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission.
“There are few who are not moved by the love that Mrs. Reagan felt for her husband,” Obama said at the ceremony.
Above all, Nancy Reagan was a fiercely devoted wife.
“My life began with Ronnie,” she told Vanity Fair magazine in 1998.
