Summined grandmother of the 44th US President Barack Obama Sarah died at the age of 99 in Kenya. It is reported by CNN TV channel.
“My family and I mourn the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Odyango Obama, which many with tenderness called Mom Sarah, but we knew her like Dani or grandmother,” wrote in Twitter Former American leader. He assured that relatives will miss her and with appreciation to remember her long and amazing life.
President Kenya Wuora Kenyatta called the death of grandmother Obama with a great blow to the nation. “We lost a strong, virtuous woman, the Matriarch, who held the Obama family together and was an icon of family values,” he said.
Sarah Obama was born in 1922, she is the third wife of Grandfather Barack Obama on the father’s line, but it does not have to the former owner of the White House by a blood relative. Kenyuk helped educate the father of the former head of state and worked as a cook for British missionaries in Kenya.
Woman was Muslim, so her funeral will be held on Islamic traditions on Tuesday, March 30th.
Obama visited the adoptive grandmother in 2015 during the first presidential visit to Kenya, and then in 2018, when he left the post of head of state. In the memoirs “Dreams of My Father”, published in 1995, politician called her “granny”.