Early Life. Gerald R. Ford Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska, but kept neither his name nor his hometown for long. In just weeks, he was whisked away by his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, to her parents' home in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Fess definition, an ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal band across the middle of an escutcheon. See more.
They donât contain a word feck, only the negative counterpart feckless. The âfeckâ in feckless began as a short form of effect used in the Scots dialect. So feckless essentially means ineffective, but is also used to describe someone who is irresponsible, incompetent, inept, or without purpose in life.