Since there is no such thing as a "fraternal" grandmother-- the word fraternal refers to brothers-- you may be asking about his maternal (mother's side) or paternal (father's side) grandmother. Both of his grandmothers are deceased.
They are both deceased.
Ann (Barack Obama's Mother)
In 1994, Ann was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer and Uterine cancer; she moved back to Hawaii to live near her widowed mother. She died there in 1995 at the age of 52. Following a memorial service at the University of Hawaii, Barack and his half-sister, Maya, spread Ann's ashes in the Pacific Ocean on the south side of Ohau at Lanai lookout.
Barack Obama Sr. (Barack Obama's dad)
Obama Sr. lost both legs in an automobile collision, and subsequently lost his job. Obama Sr.'s life then took a tailspin into drinking and poverty, from which he never recovered. He died in 1982, at the age of 46, in a car crash in Nairobi. His friend, Kenyan journalist Philip Ochieng, has described Obama Sr.'s difficult personality and drinking problems in the Kenya newspaper The Nation.
Both his mother and father are no longer living.
Barack Obama's paternal grandmother is alive. His maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, died two days before his victory as President-elect. She was 86. Go to www.answers.com
Unfortunately, she died just before her grandson Barack was elected president. President Obama was especially saddened by her death, because she had helped to raise him.
No, she died just before President Obama won the election. It was very emotional for the president to have this happen, since by most accounts, it was his grandmother who raised him.
His mothers mother was white.
NO
no, his grandfather died in 1992, at the age of 74, and his grandmother died in 2008, at the age of 84, after battling cancer.
catholic
no they are not
YES
A teen parent living at home with their parents has the right and responsibility to raise their child and not leave it up to the grandparents to do it.
Minnesota is a great place to live! This is where our grandparents immigrated to from Holand. There are still a few of us cousins that still live very close to where the family started.
Yes, she is of European descent, mostly English.
23%. Especially obamas family
Your great grandparents are the parents of your grandparents. A more specific answer is not possible without identifying the person whose great grandparents are to be identified.
They carry on their heritage and their grandparents faces.
wis
If the grandparents are legal guardians and the child is living with them, the both of you as the biological parents have to pay child support to the grandparents.