Question: Bob Boetticher was the lead funeral director for a former President who died in what year?

 Prior to this he served eight months as the 40th Vice President of the United States, following the resignation of Spiro Agnew. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977, following the resignation of Richard Nixon.  He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and consequently the only person to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected to executive office.  Before his appointment to the vice presidency, Ford served 25 years as U.S. Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district, the final nine of them as the House Minority Leader. <SEP> Guy Clement Georgias born Aguy Zvavahera Ushe in Chivhu in 1935 in Unyetu-Mutomba Village once served in the Zimbabwe government as Deputy Minister of Public Works.  At the time of his death he was a non-constituency Senator (presumably representing the Coloureds community).  He was born in 1935 and died on 19 December 2015 in Harare.  He was of the Shava totem from Mutekedza Chieftainship in Chikomba.  He was the eldest son of James Ushe Shoniwa, and could have taken over as Chief Mutekedza had it not been for his desire not to associate with his roots.  He identified as a person of Mixed Race or as a Coloured.  His brother Herbert said he did this for economic and legal reasons when he entered the City of Salisbury (now Harare) looking for economic opportunities.  That time, white colonialists favoured people of Mixed Race compared to blacks.  He was enterprising and is known for starting an engineering company, Trinity Engineering which during the early years of independence had lucrative government contracts.  One such contract involved assembling military vehicles, notably the Puma trucks.  He is known for having married 3 wives.  the first one is said to have been of Indian origin and they seared 5 children in the town of Gweru.  The second whom he married in 1977 under the old Chapter 37 (now Chapter 5:11) was black like him and she was called Manana.  With Manana, they never had any child.  The third one was Jane aka Lizzie, and they seared 5 children and Jane also had 6 children from a previous marriage.  When he died of heart attack and kidney complications in Zimbabwe on December 19 December 2015, he was declared a National Hero by the Mugabe government and was ultimately buried at the National Heroes Acre.  Although he did not fight in the war of liberation, Zvavahera was declared a national hero for challenging the European Union (EU) in court.  He sued the EU for €6 million damages for imposing sanctions on himself and the Zanu PF leadership but his application was dismissed by the EU General Court.  He himself was on the sanctions list and was denied entry in the UK in 2007.  He exhausted his personal fortune in the war against EU, but lost the case.  In President Mugabe's words at his funeral, Guy approached the government to assist him pay his lawyers.  He also asked to go with Mugabe to Venezuela to present his case but despite promises, Hugo Chavez, who was then Venezuelan President, died without offering financial support.  The government the paid the legal costs.  During his funeral, the family was divided.  Jane was recognised by the government as the wife and she participated with her children in the funeral wake.  The official funeral was organised from Rocky Lodge in Strathaven in Harare.  Manana was not recognised and together with other relatives of Guy who trouped from Chivhu, they gathered in Highlands at his other house for the funeral.  they complained to government and threatened to boycott the national shrine event.  They claim to have been instructed by CIOs (Zimbabwe Intelligence) to attend the funeral to which they did.  His rural family complained that the government did not follow traditional values.  For example they did not recognise the wife they know, Manana.  They also did not take his body to the rural village.  Further the government did not consult the rural family and allowed a daughter of 31 years named as Tina (of Mixed Race) to speak at the national shrine ahead of family elders including his 55 year old black son named Tony. <SEP> Stephen Shane Parry (born 31 October 1960) is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal Party senator for Tasmania since 2005.  He is the incumbent President of the Senate.  Parry was born in Burnie, Tasmania.  Before entering politics he worked as a police officer and funeral director. <SEP> Robert Michael "Bob" Boetticher, Sr. (born August 23, 1946) is an American funeral director, best known for the planning and implementation of memorial services for celebrities and notable individuals.  He was the lead funeral director and embalmer for the state funerals of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, and has coordinated and directed some of the most visible funerals in recent history for a variety of well-known politicians, cabinet members, business leaders, entertainers and clergy.