Dear Karessa: Where do the children of Gerald and Betty Ford now live? Do any live in Michigan? A Spring Arbor reader Dear Reader: Betty Ford, who died July 8, and her husband, President Gerald R.

After the fall of Da Nang, and with Saigon under attack, then-President Gerald Ford announced "Operation Babylift" where dozens of flights brought about 26,000 Vietnamese babies and children to the U.