Younger sister of Steven Ford, Michael Gerald Ford and John Gardner Ford.
Ex-husband Charles "Chuck" Vance was a Secret Service Agent, serving on
President Ford's security detail when they met. Now heads a private security firm in Virginia, and is married to former news anchorwoman Cynthia Steele Vance.
Was a classmate of Steve Doocy in a journalism class at the University of
Kansas.
Susan is a trained photographer who worked as a photojournalist for the Associated Press, Newsweek, Money Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, the Topeka Capital-Journal, and the Omaha Sun.
Lives in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area, and has
assumed her mother's responsibilities with the Betty Ford Center in
Rancho Mirage, California. (December 2006)
Has two daughters from her first marriage - Tyne Mary Vance Berlanga
and Heather Elizabeth Vance. Both daughters attended Southern Methodist
University.