Barack Obama in mourning: – Will miss her dearly

My family and I are mourning the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama, affectionately known to many as “Mama Sarah” but known to us as “Dani” or Granny. We will miss her dearly, but we’ll celebrate with gratitude her long and remarkable life. pic.twitter.com/avDY4f1PVu

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 29, 2021

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“My family and I are saddened by the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama also known as ‘Mama Sarah’ to many, but also known as ‘Dani’ and grandmother. We will miss her dearly, but we will celebrate her long and remarkable life with gratitude “, Obama writes in the post.

Sarah Onyango Obama was born in Kenya in 1922, and worked as a teacher and philanthropist. She was the third wife of Barack Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama. He passed away in 1979.

According to Sarah Onyango Obama’s daughter Marsat Onyango, the mother passed away on Monday, at a hospital in the town of Kisumu in western Kenya. She tells the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation that the mother was admitted to hospital on Sunday.