In Polks she is listed as Obama...
But that may be he only place she is called that...
The babysitter was also the manager of the house and apartments..
Ann could have claimed her name was Obama to claim a marriage and cover up her unwed status...
She may not have produced any ID to prove it...not in 1961..
Since she probably didnt have separate electric bills etc and probably no lease, tghat would require showin g a legal name, the landlady just took her as Obama and accepted her as married...
Remember the landlady/babysitter also was married to a foreigner...so she would not be prejudiced or wonder...
However if she did have separate bills, what name did she use ???
Ann is supposed to have driven a friends car...did she have a drivers license ???
I wonder what name was on the DL ??? That would have to ba a legal name...
I am not taking any position on the names she did or didn’t use, except to note that the photostatted version of her UW registration shows here as SADO. I really don’t want to hazard what her legal name was or when she did or didn’t use Obama on documents, official or other.
Also, given the times, there were much fewer proscriptions about the use of legal names for bills and the like. There were few places that would actually check IDs to verify legal names and there were many opportunities to forge such documents (e.g., Have you ever looked at your Social Security card? ) If she registered as SADO at the UW, that doesn’t not convince me that it is her legal name. Given the lack of any marriage announcements and the fact that they spent most of their times in different physical locations, I tend to suspect that there was never a marriage.
However, divorce courts do not require marriage certificates, at least in Hawaii. Since the major goal of a divorce proceeding is to provide for the welfare of the children, the issue of whether the marriage exists is less important than the need to provide support to the child.