Barack Obama Won’t Attend Grandmother’s Funeral, Mourns Her Nonetheless

Barack Obama Won’t Attend Grandmother’s Funeral, Mourns Her Nonetheless

Former US President Barack Obama has mourned his grandmother Mama Sarah Obama. Mama Sarah breathed her last on the morning of Monday 29th, March 2021 at the age of 99.

Obama said that the family chooses to celebrate the long life of their matriarch.

What Obama Said About His Grandmother

In a Facebook post, Obama goes on to narrate the life of Mama Sarah. 

While still in her teenagehood, she was married off to Obama’s grandfather, who was much older than her. She had no formal education and raised 8 children in her mud thatched house

Though she was not the biological mother of Barack Obama Senior, she raised him as her own.

Although not his birth mother, Granny would raise my father as her own, and it was in part thanks to her love and encouragement that he was able to defy the odds and do well enough in school to get a scholarship to attend an American university.

She lived to see one of her grandchildren become President of the United States.

The former President’s sister Auma Obama also mourned her granny and thanked those who sent the family messages of comfort.

 

Mama Sarah Obama passed on at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu after a short illness.

Condolence Messages For Mama Sarah Obama

Several leaders have also sent their messages of condolences to the family.

 

 

After family consultations, Mama Sarah will be buried tomorrow, 30th March 2021 under Muslim rites.

At C.O.K we condole with the Obama family. May she rest in peace.

Nick Tembo
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