Former first lady Barbara Bush, whose three-strand pearl necklaces and bright white hair made her instantly recognizable as the wife of one American president and mother of another one, died Tuesday. She was 92.

Born in Rye, N.Y., Barbara Pierce met George Bush at a dance when she was 16 years old. They married in 1945 and had six children: George, Robin, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy.