• Barack Obama's mother is Ann Dunham. She
was born on November 29, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas, to Stanley and
Madelyn Dunham.  Ann attended the University of Hawaii, where she
met Barack Obama Sr. The two were married in 1960 and gave birth
to Barack Jr. in 1961. In 1963 the couple divorced and Ann Obama
then married oil manager Lolo Soetoro, another University of
Hawaii student from Indonesia. In 1967, when Soetoro's student
visa was revoked because of political unrest in Indonesia, Dunham
and Barack, then in first grade, accompanied him back to Jakarta
where Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro was born. Four years
later Barack Obama Jr. was sent back to the United States to be
raised by her parents.  Ann succumbed to ovarian cancer on
November 7th, 1995.


Barack Obama Jr. with his mother Ann Dunham Obama

 
Barack Obama Jr. with his mother, Indonesian step-father Lolo
Soetoro,
and his sister Maya Soetoro in Jakarta Indonesia in 1970


• Obama's father is Barack Hussein Obama
Sr., economist, born in Alego, Siaya District, Kenya in
1936.  He met Ann Dunham while a student at the East-West Center
of the University of Hawaii.  The couple married in 1960 and
divorced in 1963 when Obama was two years old.
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. died in a car crash in Nairobi, Kenya
in 1982, leaving three wives, six sons and a daughter, all but
one of his children live in Britain or the United States.  He is
buried in the village of his birth.


Barack Obama Sr.

 
Barack Obama Sr.



• Barack Obama's maternal grandfather is Stanley
Armour Dunham, born on March 23, 1918 in Kansas,
Missouri.  At age 8 he found the body of his mother, Ruth Armour
Dunham, who had committed suicide at age 26.  He worked on oil
rigs during the Great Depression and served in the Army during
World War II.  He had an itch for adventure, moving his family
from Kansas to Texas to Washington state and finally to Hawaii
where he worked as a furniture salesman.  He died on February 8,
1992 in Honolulu, Hawaii and is buried in Punchbowl National
Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii.

• Barack Obama's maternal grandmother is Madelyn
Lee Payne Dunham, born in October 1922 in Wichita,
Kansas.  She worked on a bomber assembly line during the war and
as vice-president of a bank.  She passed away on the eve of the
of the Presidential Election, November 3rd,2008 in Honolulu,
Oahu, Hawaii at the age of 86.



Barack Obama Jr. with his maternal grandparents at his high
school graduation.

 
Barack Obama Jr. with his grandparents Madelyn and Stanley
Dunham.


• Obama's paternal grandfather is Hussein Onyango
Obama.  He was born in 1895 in Kenya and died in 1979.