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Virginia [Dunham] and Cecil met at the Boeing plant in Kansas. The two married in Wellington and had three children: One child died at the age of three and a half to cancer. That left daughter Debi, known as Laya,” and son, Kevin. Cecil and Virginia moved to Arkansas with Cecil job after the children had finished school. The Goeldners’ describe Debi as an honor student who attended the same college that her grandfather did in Lawrence, KS.

A linguistics major, Debi worked as a professor at the college in Lawrence, teaching foreign students English. “One of the students Debi taught became her husband, an Engineering student from Saudi Arabia on scholarship. He graduated a year before she did,” Virginia said. “Debi’s main emphasis was the Arabic language. She moved to Saudi Arabia with her husband after graduation, where she lives today with their five children.

Her husband, Abdullah Al-Ahmadi is a Civil Engineer and a manager with Saudi Aramco.

Virginia Goeldner said when her nephew was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois, she knew he would someday run for president. She just didn’t expect it so soon.

Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham, was Virginia Goeldner’s brother

http://rottie-refugees.com/2013/04/22/family-ties/

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STEVE KEESEE 7/19/10 Cecil Goeldner (from the left), his wife Ginger and O'Neal Bailey along with other musicians perform "You Are My Sunshine" Monday at the Hays Senior Citizens Center, North Little Rock. They gather every Monday and Friday in a meeting room at the center for a jam session, playing traditional country music from 1p.m. to 3p.m..

Cecil Max Goeldner, 75, of Maumelle passed away Monday, March 18, 2013. He was born July 3, 1937 in Butler County, Kansas to Cecil B. and Hazel Maxine MacKay Goeldner. He was a member of First United Methodist Church and lead guitarist of The Grandpas. He was a Boeing employee. Then he co-founded Data Center Inc. in Kansas, and Pacesetter in Michigan, and was a Computer Systems Analyst for Systematics and for Alltel.

He is survived by his wife, Virginia (Dunham) Goeldner, of Maumelle; daughter, Layla Cecil Goeldner, of Saudi Arabia; son, Kevin Blake Goeldner, of Aledo, Texas; seven grandchildren, Nadia, Maria, Dania, Abdulrahman, Omar, Grace and Seth; and five great-grandchildren, Abdullah, Jena, Adam, Tariq and Sami. He was preceded in death by
a daughter, Donna Elaine Goeldner.

I was reading this thread and ran upon the photo captioned Virginia Goeldner with her brother Stanley Dunham. I had never seen it before. The woman looked exactly like photos of his daughter from that time frame.

I googled Virginia Goeldner to see what she looked like. That video (without audio) came up. I don’t see how anyone can possibly believe that is the same woman.