page_title: Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford
hierarchical_section_title: Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of President Gerald Ford announcing his decision to grant a pardon to former President Richard Nixon.
context_page_description: On December 26, 2006, Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California at 6:45 p.m. local time. At 8:49 p.m. local time, President Ford's wife of 58 years, Betty Ford, issued a statement that confirmed his death: "My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country." The causes of death listed on the subsequent death certificate were arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and
  diffuse arteriosclerosis.
  At the age of 93 years and 165 days, Ford was the longest-lived U.S. president in history until November 25, 2017, when his record was then surpassed by George H. W. Bush, who lived to be past 94 years.
  Ford was the second president to die during the presidency of George W. Bush, as well as the second to die in the twenty-first century. The other was Ronald Reagan.
context_section_description: On December 26, 2006, Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California at 6:45 p.m. local time (02:45, December 27, UTC). At 8:49 p.m. local time, President Ford's wife of 58 years, Betty Ford, issued a statement that confirmed his death: "My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country." The causes of death listed on the subsequent death certificate were arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and 
  diffuse arteriosclerosis.
  At the age of 93 years and 165 days, Ford was the longest-lived U.S. president in history until November 25, 2017, when his record was then surpassed by George H. W. Bush, who lived to be past 94 years.
  Ford was the second president to die during the presidency of George W. Bush, as well as the second to die in the twenty-first century. The other was Ronald Reagan.
caption: Gerald R. Ford
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