22 Facts About Madelyn Dunham

Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham was the American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

Madelyn Dunham was an honor roll student and one of the best students at Augusta High School, where she graduated in 1940.

Madelyn Dunham gave birth to their only child, a daughter named Stanley Ann Dunham, who was later known as Ann, at St Francis Hospital in Wichita on November 29,1942.

In El Dorado, Madelyn Dunham worked in restaurants and Stanley Dunham had managed a furniture store.

In Seattle, she eventually became vice-president of a local bank and Stanley Madelyn Dunham worked in a bigger furniture store.

Madelyn and Stanley Dunham attended church at the East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue.

The Dunhams then moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where Madelyn Dunham started working at the Bank of Hawaii in 1960 and was promoted to be one of the bank's first female vice presidents in 1970, while Stanley Dunham worked at a furniture store.

Ann Madelyn Dunham attended the University of Hawaii, and while attending a Russian language class, she met Barack Obama Sr.

Stanley and Madelyn Dunham were unhappy about their daughter's marriage to Obama Sr.

The Dunhams adapted, but Madelyn Dunham was quoted as saying, "I am a little dubious of the things that people from foreign countries tell me".

Madelyn and Stanley Dunham raised their grandson, Barack Obama from age 10 while his mother and step-father were living in Jakarta, Indonesia, so he could go to school in Hawaii.

Ann Madelyn Dunham later came back to Hawaii to pursue graduate studies, but when she returned to Indonesia in 1977 for her master's fieldwork, Obama stayed in the United States with his grandparents.

Madelyn Dunham retired from the Bank of Hawaii in 1986.

Madelyn Dunham took care of her daughter in Hawaii in the months before Ann Madelyn Dunham died in 1995 at age 52.

Until her death, Madelyn Dunham lived in the same small high-rise apartment where she raised her grandson, Barack Obama.

Madelyn Dunham was an avid bridge player, but mostly stayed at home in her apartment "listening to books on tape and watching her grandson on CNN every day".

Madelyn Dunham developed severe osteoporosis and, in 2008, she underwent both corneal transplant and hip replacement surgeries.

Madelyn Dunham was generally not seen in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Madelyn Dunham is somebody that I love as much as anybody.

Madelyn Dunham has terrible osteoporosis so she can't fly, but, you know, she has been the rock of our family and she is sharp as a tack.

On November 2,2008, the Obama campaign announced that Madelyn Dunham had "died peacefully after a battle with cancer" in Hawaii.

Madelyn Dunham's most recent native European ancestor was her great-great grandfather, Robert Perry, who was born in Anglesey, Wales in 1786 and whose father, Henry Perry, first settled Radnor, Ohio in 1803.