[hoosiermama]

Before working as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi

Now where have we heard about missionaries in Nairobi before....Wonder if the connection continued until the birth of Jrn?

[Fred Nerks]

That may be from the Gloria Hagberg story.They weren’t missionaries, from what I can see...

http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/-/434746/525930/-/view/printVersion/-/i13vxrz/-/index.html

The USIS had provided a house and staff for the family in Muthaiga near the US ambassador’s residence.

Their cook was Hussein Onyango Obama, none other than the paternal grandfather of President Obama. Gloria recalls the times Hussein’s son, the youthful student Barack Obama Sr, would visit their house, announcing: “I’ve come to see the old man!”