Posted on 12/24/2008 7:45:59 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Michelle and Barack Obama attend a seaside memorial for his grandmother, "Toot."
HONOLULU - President-elect Barack Obama gathered with family and friends on Tuesday for a private memorial service for the beloved grandmother who helped raise him.
Madelyn Payne Dunham, known to her friends as "Toot", died Nov. 2, two days before Obama won election to become the nation's first African-American president. She was 86.
Obama did not speak to reporters at the small home that had been converted into the First Unitarian Church in the neighborhood of Nuuanu. Aides said Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, and her husband, Konrad Ng, also were present.
Following the ceremony, Obama drove to cliffs east of Hononulu. He and about 20 members of his family climbed over a stone wall and down onto rocky ledges to scatter Dunham's ashes at Lanai Lookout.
Obama earlier this year left flowers at the same cliffs, in memory of his mother.
What a creep.
Good point. Death certificates are blocked I assume?
If she died on November 3, where are the coroners report of picking up a body?
Fri 24 Oct, morning in Ohio, EDT: Michelle Obama claims "I spoke with tutu last night and she is strong and in good health." [alt source]
Fri 24 Oct: [Sinclair] Dunham is cremated according to coroner's office sources
Hmmmmmm!!!!
He threw this old bag under the bus during the campaign saying she was just a typical white racist!! You’re an A-hole Barry!
Whats a grandmather?
I believe it’s called a typo.
Fri 24 Oct: [Sinclair] Dunham is cremated according to coroner’s office sources
Sun 02 Nov: This is the date of Dunham’s death as reported by Hawaiian officials and Maya Ng some time after the initial announcements and news reports on the 3rd [alt source]
Mon 03 Nov: The date of Dunham’s death as initially announced by Obama and reported by media on this same day
How can she be cremated in Oct. and die in Nov.?
I don’t know. Note that the source is Sinclair. Need a better source.
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