Barack Obama's paternal grandmother was Habiba Akuma Obama. She lived from 1918 to 2006 and died at the age of 88.
Barack Obama's maternal grandmother was Madelyn Dunham. She lived from October 26, 1922- November 2, 2008, and died of cancer. She was 86 when she died.
She was 53 years old when she died ....... She died because Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro (November 29, 1942 - November 7, 1995), known as Ann Dunham, and later as Ann Sutoro was an anthropologist who specialized in rural development. Born in Kansas, Dunham spent her teenage years in Mercer Island near Seattle, Washington, and much of her adult life in Hawaii. She is the mother of United States Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
She died of cancer, per reports in the Washington Post.
she croaked at age 86, 2 days before barack was elected as first African American president
Barack Obama's mother died of cancer in Honolulu, Hawaii in December 1995; he was 34 years old at the time his mother lost her battle with cancer.
She was born in 1942, and died in 1995. She was only 53 when she died of cancer.
Obama had to live with his grandmother.
Barack Obama's mother is deceased; she died of cancer in 1995 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
She died from ovarian cancer in 1995; she was only 52 years old.
No, his mother died of ovarian cancer.
Barack Obama's mother Ann Dunham died in 1995 and his father Barack Obama Sr died in 1982.
His Mother died in 1995 by ovarian cancer
Who was the 102 year old woman introduced as Obama's mother at the inauguration?
President Obama's mother died several years ago.
Dorothy Howell Rodham was born June 4, 1919 and died at the age of 92 on November 1, 2011.
Stanley Ann Dunham was born on November 27, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas and died November 7, 1995 of ovarian cancer (shortly after the publication of Obama's book, Dreams from My Father).That made her a fairly young 53 when she died.