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Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (/ ˈ d ʌ n əm / DUN-əm; October 26, 1922 [1] – November 2, 2008) was an American banker and the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment. She died on November 2, 2008, two days ...
Dunham was born on November 29, 1942, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, [6] the only child of Madelyn Lee Payne and Stanley Armour Dunham. [7] She was of predominantly English ancestry, with small amounts of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German and Swiss-German. [8]
Madelyn Dunham started working at the Bank of Hawaii in 1960, and was promoted as one of the bank's first female vice presidents in 1970. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In Barack Obama 's memoir, Dreams From My Father , he wrote, "One of my earliest memories is of sitting on my grandfather's shoulders as the astronauts from one of the Apollo missions arrived at ...
Ann (1942–1995) and Madelyn Dunham (1922–2008) (ashes were scattered on the south side of Oahu into the Pacific Ocean.) Ann Dvorak (1911–1979) Harry Earles (1902–1985) William Edmunds (1886–1981)
Ann Dunham returned with her son to Honolulu and in January 1963 resumed her undergraduate education at the University of Hawaii. [10] In January 1964, Dunham filed for divorce, which was not contested. [6] Barack Obama, Sr. later graduated from Harvard University with an A.M. in economics and in 1965 returned to Kenya. [11] [12] [14]
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Stanley Dunham died in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1992 and is buried there in the Punchbowl National Cemetery. Madelyn Dunham took care of her daughter in Hawaii in the months before Ann died in 1995 at age 52.[13] Her last interview was in 2004, on the occasion of her grandson's keynote address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.[14][15]
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