Early Life
Ford was born Mary Alice Hood in Los Angeles, California on April 23, 1935. Graduating from high school at South Pasadena High School in 1952, she enrolled at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in education in 1956 from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She married William Ford in 1957 and they had three children; Thomas, John, and Sherilyn. She later divorced William Ford, but retained the last name. Ford was a stay at home mother.
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