Grandmother of Barack Obama dies at 86
Madelyn Dunham, the maternal grandmother of United States 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama, has died of cancer at 86, just one day before the election.
Dunham, who was born in Peru, Kansas in 1922, helped to raise Obama since he was 10. She lived in Honolulu, Hawaii for most of here life, where she died peacefully in her apartment shortly before midnight local time.
“It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer. She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility,” said Obama and his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, in a joint statement to the press.
During his acceptance speech for Democratic presidential nomination he noted her with the words, “She’s the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life… She poured everything she had into me.”
Obama took time out from his presidential campaign in October to visit her at her bedside a week before she died.
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