Posted on 12/14/2008 3:52:20 PM PST by jetxnet
The following information was extrapolated and formulated from Mitchell Langbert's Blog for November 18.
Communsim from day 1
It is reported that Obama's grandparents were members of the CPUSA communist party. Also his mother Ann Dunham. Obama's mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a big time player in the CPUSA in Chicago before leaving for Hawaii to live. Obama ends up where? Chicago. Obama immediately joined the NEW PARTY when he arrived and they helped him get elected to the Illinois senate.
Who died and when?
Ann Dunham's father seemingly never died and married another woman. Ann seemingly never died and is alive and well to this day. Did Obama's grandmother really die recently?
Keep in mind there were no funerals, just memorial services for each person. Also, there is no record of a Stanley Ann Dunham having been treated and dying in a Cancer Institute in Hawaii that Obama has made claim to. They have no record of her having died or even being there at all.
What we're told
- November 7, 1995, Stanley Ann (Dunham-Obama) Soetoro allegedly died of “ovarian cancer” at age “56.” Her body was cremated; there was no funeral. Memorial service held in her honor at the University of Hawaii. No info on BHO attending; But “helped scatter her ashes over the Pacific Ocean.”
Problems with the story
- An alias for Stanley Ann Dunham was found as a “relative/associate” of Madelyn L. Dunham, Honolulu, HI: “Kelly A. Dunham.”
- Dunhams had only one daughter, Stanley Ann. Therefore, Kelly Ann, who does not seem to have any other history, is likely an alias for Stanley Ann.
An alias search for Stanley Ann at recordsarea.com shows the following information:
| * Kelly A. Dunham, associate/relative of Madelyn L. Dunham, Honolulu, HI; |
| * Kelly A. Shippleck (Kelly A. Dunham), Phoenix, AZ [is this a third marriage or an alias for real estate/money laundering?]. |
| * Sandra Dunham (Sandra Lee Dunham), OH, FL |
| * Susan N. Dunham, HI, CA. Ste (Stephen) Dunham, Honolulu, HI (Stanley Ann chooses another male name?) |
| * Stephen O. Dunham, Honolulu, HI |
| * Scott A. Dunham, (Stanley Ann chooses a second male name?), HI, WA, OR, TN, VA, IN. |
Each of the aforementioned aliases contains one or more references to the above examples. In cases where the trail seemingly ends, one needs only to cross-reference the “relatives/associates” and the trail continues. Some entries show as many as “99 addresses” in one city and “160 relatives/associates
ACTIVE social security check on Stanley Ann Dunham
Her SSN is 535-40-8522 from Ancestry.com
A search at intelius.com using that SS# returns 2 addresses in Honolulu, HI and one address for NY,New York.
Stanley Ann's age for this record is shown to be age 66.
Doing a Whitepages.com search yields the following results:
| Stanley A. Dunham |
| 320 E. 43rd St. |
| NY, NY 10017 |
| Telephone Number 212-573-5000 |
| Job Title: Part of the Gender Equality Program |
| Co Ford Foundation |
It has been reported that Stanley Ann Dunham was at Ford Foundation during Barack’s Columbia years.
A reverse phone number search for the Ford Foundation number returns an individual by the name of Scott Terkowitz
Did Scott Terkowitz take over that phone number and office? It looks like he had a California license and a West Virginia license to practice.
| Virginia Board of Dentistry Scott T********, Clifton Forge, VA Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 043290; Cal. No. 21162 Regents Action Date: January 12, 2004 Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty agreed upon: 24 month suspension, execution of last 21 months of suspension=2 0stayed, probation 2 years. Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having been found guilty of professional misconduct by the Virginia Board of Dentistry.
New York State Education Department Office of the Professions Summaries of Regents Actions on Professional Misconduct and Discipline January 12, 2004 |
A search for the Ford Foundation Address:
320 E. 43rd St. New York
There 36 places (mostly medical related) associated with this address. Not uncommon for large office buildings. Each business in the building have their own phone number, as you would expect.
The phone for the first place (a medical firm) on the list was searched and it returned 24 people having the same and IDENTICAL phone number but with DIFFERENT addresses, even out of state, for that number.
The common denominator of these results is each address is a different one for a different PHD Medical Doctor, but with the same phone number
It is possible this is a national group but very odd having different addresses.
The Ford Foundation and Stanley Ann's connection there
It is reported that Ann Dunham worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia for many years.
Going to the Ford Foundation website, the following information is given:
| The Jakarta office makes grants in Indonesia. |
| Ford Foundation |
| P.O. Box 2030 |
| Jakar ta 10020, Indonesia |
| Tel. (+62) 21-252-4073 |
| Fax (+62) 21-252-4078 |
| ffjakarta@fordfound.org |
|
The Ford Foundation began working in Indonesia, from an office located in Jakarta, in 1953. Over the years, we have provided more than $450 million in grants in selected fields. The great diversity of Indonesia’s people and their culture—in terms of geography, religion, and social differences—is a source of strength and innovation. At the same time, the nation’s ethnic and linguistic diversity presents challenges, and certain groups are significantly marginalized in their access to resources or participation in decisions that affect their lives. Broad, Evolving Focus The grant-making focus of the foundation has evolved over the years in response to the shifting political and economic landscape and the changing needs and priorities of Indonesia’s people and communities. Today, we are making major commitments in a range of areas, including local philanthropy; natural resources management, rural livelihoods and community empowerment; sexuality and reproductive health; governance and civil society; media, arts and culture; and formal and alternative education. Grants in these areas have been designed to strengthen individual and institutional capabilities, support innovative practices and disseminate information on successful approaches” |
The current analysis now raises this question:
Q Are these doctors involved with Organ Harvesting/Trafficking?
Rising trade in Human Organs is Alarming. You can read the article on this here: http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2008/11/contrairimairi-raises-baffling.html
Indonesia is one of the "hot-spots" for organ trading.
Q Are the people currently associated with the building that houses THE FORD FOUNDATION at 320 E. 43rd St. involved in another body organ trafficking ring?
Concerning Ann Dunham helped with microeconomics in Indonesia...so why her job title at Ford Foundation for Gender Equality?
The same pattern holds true for doing searches on the other phone numbers listed in the initial results. Each one returns a different list of Contacts, but each with the same phone number and yet different address. Each one is a Medical PHD.
A search for Ann Dunham and the Ford Foundation at rantburg.com yields this result:
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama Former Menteng student now US President “Dunham-Soetoro became a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development on setting up a village credit program, then a Ford Foundation program officer in Jakarta specializing in women’s work. Later, she was a consultant in Pakistan, then joined Indonesia’s oldest bank to work on what is described as the world’s largest sustainable microfinance program, creating services like credit and savings for the poor.”
Dunham Foreign Profit Businesses
Some have these business-fronts have lapsed or withdrawn.
A search for Dunham businesses at governmentfilesonline.com yield some of the following results
DUNHAM ASSOCIATES, INC. FOREIGN PROFIT CORPORATION Annual Filings FILING YEAR DATE RECEIVED STATUS 2004 Mar 22, 2004 Rejected 2003 Jan 16, 2003 Processed 2002 Not Required 2001 Processed 2000 Processed 1999 Processed
TRADE NAME DUNHAM ENTERPRISES FILE NUMBER 321149 ZZ CERTIFICATE NUMBER 4034202 STATUS Active PURPOSE CONSULTING EXPIRATION DATE Jun 27, 2010 REGISTRATION DATE Jun 28, 2005 MAILING ADDRESS 1134 KINAU ST #901 HONOLULU, Hawaii 96814 UNITED STATES REGISTRANT PATRICIA ANN DUNHAM
A search using bocweb.dlnrbc.hawaii.gov for businesses associated with Stanley Dunham yield the following results.
Notice the Ford Foundation comes up.
THE FORD FOUNDATION *All Filings
THIS IS THE ADDRESS WHERE STANLEY ANN DUNHAM WORKED FOR THE FORD FOUNDATION AT 320 E. 43RD ST. NYC NY NOTICE THAT THESE FILES ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO BE VIEWED!!!
| 2. Debtor Names: FORD FOUNDATION T/A REST. ASSOC. 320 E. 43RD ST., NYC, NY 10036-0000, USA Secured Party Names: LA TOURAINE COFFEE CO. 520 SECAUCUS ROAD, SECAUCUS, NJ 07096-0000, USA File no. File Date Lapse Date Filing Type Pages Image 085313 04/22/1998 04/22/2003 Financing Statement 1=2 0NA * |
| 3. Debtor Name s: FORD FOUNDATION T/A REST. ASSOC. 320 E. 43RD ST., NYC, NY 10036-0000, USA Secured Party Names: LA TOURAINE COFFEE CO. 520 SECAUCUS ROAD, SECAUCUS, NJ 07096-0000, USA File no. File Date Lapse Date Filing Type Pages Image 085317 04/22/1998 04/22/2003 Financing Statement 1 NA * |
| 4. Debtor Names: THE FORD FOUNDATION 320 EAST 43RD ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017-4816, USA Secured Party Names: IBM CORPORATION 1 NORTH CASTLE DRIVE, ARMONK, NY 10504-2575, USA File no. File Date Lapse Date Filing Type Pages Image 002985 01/05/2000 01/05/2005 Financing Statement 1 NA * 014125 01/20/2000 01/05/2005 Termination 1 NA * |
| 5. Debtor Names: THE FORD FOUNDATION 320 EAST 43RD ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017-0000, USA Secured Party Names: DE LAGE LANDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. 1055 WESTLAKES DRIVE, BERWYN, PA 19312-0000, USA File no. File Date Lapse Date Filing Type Pages Image 238698 12/12/2000 12/12/2005 Financing Statement 2 NA * NOTE: New York State does not issue organizational identification numbers. |
It is also reported that Stanley Ann Soetoro, also used or spelled "Soetoro" as "Sutoro".
Ford Foundation, white pages search Stanley A. Dunham: Expanded search to SUTORO...instead of as SOETORO... (In the Hawaiian Public records search, the public records were listed as Stanley Ann SUTORO)
| Ann D Sutoro 320 E 43rd St New York, NY 10017 (212) 573-5000 Job title: Program Officer for Women & Employment Company: Ford Foundation |
Q SA Dunham the same as our Stanley Ann Dunham that worked at 320 E. 49th St. in NYC at the Ford Foundation??
She supposedly DIED in Nov. 1995, and Verizon didn’t come onto the scene until 1996..after the merger of Bell Atlantic and GE
http://verizonpathetic.com/historylesson6.html
Now, what is interesting is that on this search record, it states years of residence 1993, 1994, 1995. BUT, what is INTERESTING, is that the phone number associated with this S A Dunham was a Land Line..from Verizon. Verizon didn’t exist until 1996.
For years 1993, 1994, 1995 when she was supposed to be living in Hawaii?? She supposedly died on Nov. 7, 1995.
The address at 235 E. 40th St puts her on the same block as her Ford Foundation Job address. 320 E. 40TH ST.
Reverse search on her phone number..it came up name and address unavailable: Phone was a LAND LINE, Verizon
US Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 about S A Dunham
| Name: S A Dunham Address: 235 E 40Th St City: New York State: New York Zip Code: 10016-0889 Phone Number: 212-986-9541 R esidence Years: 1993201994 1995 Source Citation: City: New York; State: New York; Year(s): 1993 1994 1995. |
Low and behold, we see Ann only lives 3 city blocks from where she works
Overall analysis based on data presented above indicates
|
The multiple addresses under each alias suggest an extreme pattern of money laundering and real estate acquisitions. No one person would have so many addresses in one lifetime and certainly not under each alias. The research has, quite by accident, opened the door to the world of organized real estate fraud and money laundering. Admittedly, charging the Dunhams and their presumed aliases and Stanley Ann and her aliases with complicity in this nation-destroying scam is a bold step forward and, journalistically, could be deemed premature. However, the extent of money-laundering, as revealed by means of linking database names and real estate transactions, is staggering. On the basis of the above examples and evidence from other investigations, the numbers of properties involved likely number in the millions and would be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, if not $trillions. What is most interesting in this is how they appear to be accomplishing this as it has mixed the old Muslim money system of hawala with modern credit card laundering, including ATM transfers with the direct quid pro quo involving non profits and the indirect infiltration of funds via some very connected Muslim billionaires, topped off with the public airwaves as a public paid for propaganda ministry. For the basics, hawala, is an off the book banking system which runs the Middle East. No money ever exchanges hands across borders. It works like this: Ahmadinejad of Iran decides to disrupt the United States election process and tells a broker in Tehran, he wants to transfer several hundred thousand dollars to Iranian immigrants in the United States. The broker takes the money from Ahmadinejad, writes the transaction down in his notebook, assigns it a transaction number which he tells Ahmadinejad to send to his Iranian agents in New York or Detroit, who then go in and pick up the cash from the hawala broker which looks like a noodle merchant in a run down store. No money ever exchanges hands, but the Tehran broker will someday soon have money coming out of America and make the exchange and the books will balance then in a perpetual flow. |
Other interesting notes, including information from an undisclosed source claiming to know the real Obama
“There is no evidence Ann Dunham had even met Obama Senior in or around November 1960, the alleged time of conception, indeed it is not even clear Obama was in Honolulu at that time, although he may have been. Ann Dunham was only 17 and although she might have been in Honolulu the timing is tight. More to the point, she was in neither of the medical centers put forward by the Obama campaign (question: why do they not know in which hospital he was born?) on August 4th, nor are there medical records to back up the claimed birth, nor has an attending physician been named. I’ve heard of births with the father absent, births with the mother absent a bit trickier.”
“There are said to be photos of Ann Dunham on Waikiki Beach taken in or about July 1961, when she is supposed to have been in her third trimester, in a bikini, taken by a fellow female student. AD is clearly not pregnant. Media have not yet talked to fellow students, but it can’t be long. There are bound to be other photos of AD in existence taken during the alleged 2nd and 3rd trimesters. Obama campaign are terrified some one will press for her medical records, which have been accessed by CIA.” “Obama Senior was murdered in Kenya in 1982 to silence him. Interesting story, his sister Auma as well — she appears to be a full sister, not a half-sister as he is claiming, i.e. they share the same mother. She was ordered back to Kenya in 2007 to prevent DNA testing …. CIA did a DNA test on the grandparents, using saliva from glasses, which conclusively rules out any relationship between Obama and the Dunhams.” “Effectively,” the source concludes, “Obama is a German sleeper agent.” There was the fact that in Hawaii the boy was tutored in the ways of revolution by leading black activists, Muslim activists, and Communist activists. Influentia black nationalist and Communist Frank Marshall Davis would become a huge influence in the young Obama’s life.
But things really got strange with the revelation that Khalid al-Mansour, close adviser to a Saudi billionaire and royal family helped Obama get into Harvard Law School (and reportedly Columbia before that) and financed his education and advancement.
Those who controlled the life of Stanley Armour Dunham, prepared him for the subservient role he would later play, as a “surrogate grandfather” to a fictional character created for the purpose of first infiltrating, then compromising the United States government.
Lebanon Connection, money-laundering scheme using counterfeit money and stolen credit cards
Ann Dunham possibly not a America citizen and went to school in Beirut, Lebanon. Possibly the family was smuggled into the US as spies. No wonder Obama refuses to show his BC.
"It is not that difficult my fellow and fellowette citizens. I will remind you that Mr. Obama is currently being fed over $250 million in overseas funds. This is the same overseas forgery center of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon which has the Xerox DocuColor 100 digital printing press at $500,000 a unit, along with the old acid paper and the presses which turns out hundreds of millions of dollars to fund terrorism around the world.
Do you really think an operation which was Axelrod inept and has graduated to contracting outside computer hackers in a quid pro quo is now going to be sunk in not coming up with a few documents and a few Democrats from operational military and intelligence backgrounds to clean up this problem?"
"The process is simple. 3rd world bank takes in counterfeit money to pay for non used credit cards which have been stolen."
More on stolen credit card numbers -- used for Obama related money laundering:
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-money-train.html
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/10/dangling-phil-berg.html
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/10/oh-my-proven-right-again.html
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/11/some-necessary-obama-bailout-questions.html
"The payments are all electronic, so no statements are sent to unsuspecting people.
The net result the Obama campaign hauls in over 250 million in donations which means a big black hole deficit in someone's legitimate bank."
"Rep. John Boehner of the GOP asking about ghost loans of 2 trillion dollars to who knows where and what that the taxpayer is being stuck with in asking the real questions of just how much of this government bailout money and financial disaster flowed directly into Barack Obama's campaign funding orgy of 800 million dollars.
We know for a fact today that the Democratic Party BORROWED 15 million dollars for Barack Obama in the last weeks of the election. Which banks did this come from and as homeowners were in dire straits at the very least banks were giving Obama loans for steak dinners and jet trips while poor people were being squeezed to pay their mortgage."
The scheme in detail as explained by an expert in the process
"Obama receives 300 million dollars from the Middle East. The said Middle East bank has in it counterfeit money from Lebanon deposited knowing it is bogus.
Said Obama operatives in the Middle East take stolen American credit card numbers which if one recalls were all over the news just before the Obama campaign decided it was going to raise money via credit cards.
The operatives phone Obama's Penny Pritzker and donate whatever amounts that showed up on their books which amount to 300 million dollars.
American credit card companies pay it thinking they are being paid with real money from these banks. The operatives pay by electronic transfers the credit card bill so no physical bill is sent and the owner whether living or dead has no idea their account is active as most accounts do not show year end statements.
The money then goes into the Obama accounts in America banks and is paid out to willing Obama sucklings all squealing like pigs for the Obama in being funded by him.
For all the nonsense of Shep Smith not believing the MSM is in the tank for Obama and made a difference, no one has asked grinning Shep just how much 800 million dollars buys in loyalty from the media.
At the very least Barack Obama is on record for taking 15 million dollars from a strapped population in need of every cent to make house payments. At the mid ground, Barack Obama owes 300 million dollars in money which should be seized by the Treasury as it was fraudlent coming out of the Middle East. At the maximum, Barack Obama is knowingly guilty of criminal money fraud in taking a part in funding his campaign in the economic rape of the United States."
"No birth certificate for Stanley Ann Dunham or her parents, or her maternal grandparents. No marriage certificate for Ann's parents and no record of Ann's fathers service in the military. This would be a point Obama made to throw everyone off that no one in his family is a natural born citizen including him.
So why is the government covering up all of this for Obama? All these records Obama talks about are available to the FBI and the CIA. Yet we hear nothing?
We have no idea who Obama is. But this information here says he is a part of something larger than just POTUS."
According to legend he and Michelle went to Bali so he could complete writing without interrupion. Drugs aren’t exactly popular there and result in extremely stiff sentences. It is as if he was writing the fairytale with only one thought in mind, to advance himself and create a background, which doesn’t mesh with what we do know and are still finding out. He actually told David Mendell that anything Mendell wanted to know about him could be found by reading his book. If the book were published today it would have to be published as fiction!
Seems to me I read, maybe on one of the threads about Ayers likely being a ghost write - that 0bama went to Bali to “write” but didn’t get much writing done there. I wonder what he was doing there? Brushing up on his Bahasa? Connecting up with Muslim roots? Of course, on Bali they’re mostly a type of Hindu. I wonder if he really stayed in Bali the whole time? It was quite a long time. Maybe Bali was just a port of call. Sure would be interesting to know what he did during that time, and if he traveled anywhere besides Bali.
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/did_bill_ayers_write_1.htm
As Osnos relates, a 1990 New York Times profile on Harvard’s first black editor caught the eye of a hustling young literary agent named Jane Dystel.
Dystel persuaded Obama to put a book proposal together, and she submitted it. Poseidon, a small imprint of Simon & Schuster, signed on and authorized a roughly $125,000 advance for Obama’s proposed memoir.
With advance in hand, Obama repaired to Chicago where the University of Chicago offered him an office and stipend to help him write. Obama dithered.
At one point, in order to finish without interruption, he and wife Michelle decamped to Bali. Obama was supposed to have finished the book within a year. Bali or not, advance or no, he could not. He was surely in way over his head.
According to Osnos, Simon & Schuster canceled the contract and likely asked that Obama return at least some of the advance.
Dystel did not give up. She solicited Times Book, the division of Random House at which Osnos was publisher. He met with Obama, took his word that he could finish the book, and authorized a new advance of $40,000.
Then suddenly, somehow, the muse descended on Obama and transformed him from a struggling, unschooled wannabe into a literary superstar.
That’s where I read it, thanks. I wonder how long he was in Bali. Interesting that he “all of a sudden” was able to write, once he got back in Chicago.
Yep. What a revelation he had! :)
I just found a new article posted at the University of Hawaii at Manoa written about Ann Dunham. It includes some pictures of her in Bali in the 1990’s. Here is the link:
http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2009/01/lessons-for-president-obama/
The picture of her in Bali is the top right hand one. What is interesting is a link within the comments where her faculty advisor, Alice Dewey, says Ann’s B.A. was in Anthropology while the email from Stuart Lau advises that Ann received a B.A. in Math in August 1966. Nice contradiction between UH records and a faculty advisor!
Yikes. Nothing is what it seems with these people. What was AD doing in Bali - more micro loans?
I guess he had a little help from his friend/s.
According to the article, she’s Mahamta Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and Johnny Appleseed all rolled into one.
Ann completed requirements for the MA in 1974 [although it was not formally granted until 1986].
Thanks! I’ll check out some names.
According to Alice Dewey Ann took the job in micro-finance whch led to a delay in her receiving her M.A. I was just wondering if she received her B.A. in Math with a minor in Anthropology because I cannot see the Registrar, Stuart Lau, making such a mistake in checking records? Maybe I should have added a barf alert warning along with the link? lol
Payne siblings:
Madelyn
Charles
Margaret Arlene
Jack
Obama’s grandmother taught him accountability, self reliance
Charleston Gazette (WV) - Sunday, August 24, 2008
Author: Allen G. Breed The Associated Press
EXCERPT - no link
Madelyn Lee Payne was born in October 1922 in the tiny town of Peru, Kan. Not long thereafter, Rolla Payne moved his young family to the nearby boomtown of Augusta, population about 5,000.
It was a place that Obama would describe in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” as one “where decency and endurance and the pioneer spirit were joined at the hip with conformity and suspicion and the potential for unblinking cruelty.”
Rolla and his wife, Leona, a teacher, lived in a “company house” at the edge town. The one-story frame house had three bedrooms, an indoor bathroom, a front porch that went the full width of the house and another enclosed one out back where Leona Payne did the family laundry.
Behind the house were the racks where the oil company stored its pipe, and about 100 feet away was the office where Rolla Payne worked. Next door was the empty lot where the Paynes and the other neighborhood kids played baseball.
Madelyn was the oldest of four children. Fifteen years separate her and the baby, Jack.
“She called us ‘the kids,’” remembers her younger sister, Margaret Payne , who shared a bedroom with Madelyn and is known in the family by her middle name, Arlene.
“I would say she more liked to ignore us,” says Payne , 82, a retired statistics professor now living in Chapel Hill, N.C. “But that was the age difference, and not that she was mean or anything.”
Rolla and Leona Payne are buried at Highland Cemetary, Winfield, KS. Our local paper, the Winfield Courier did a big story about Obama’s great-grandparents and their ties to our community. The Paynes retired to Winfield where they lived for about 12 years before their deaths in 1968. Their grave stone reads, Rolla Charles Payne, born Aug 23, 1892; died Oct 15, 1968: Leona McCurry Payne, born May 7, 1897; died Mar 22, l968. He died approx six months after she did. The couple had joined the First Methodist Church in Winfield. According to the paper, a few locals remember them. I never met them as I lived in the country.
Question:
Supposedly Stanley Ann met Obama Sr in a Russian class at UH.
Is Russian a common course for an incoming college freshman? In the 60’s?
Maybe that’s why Michelle was so excited after Obama threw grandma’s ashes into the ocean, she jumped up on Obama, legs first.
Are you serious?
Did she indeed start that first UH semester late?
And, according to the story, she’s pregnant within six weeks. Hardly enough time for a cup of coffee.
Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home has the records of the Paynes’ deaths. Leona died on March 22, 1968, and Rolla on Oct. 22. The Courier published Leona’s obituary on March 23, 1968, and Rolla’s on Oct. 23, 1968.
Obama’s great-grandparents laid to rest in Winfield
Rolla and Leona Payne lived here and are buried at Highland Cemetery
By JUDITH ZACCARIA and TYLER GASKILL
With the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States less than two weeks away, people and communities are claiming all kinds of connections with him. This is certainly true in Kansas, where his mother’s family has roots.
Now Winfield can claim its own part of Obama because his great-grandparents - his mother’s grandparents - are buried here. Their graves are in the far southwest corner of the old section of Highland Cemetery.
On a 1917 draft registration, Rolla described himself as having a slender build, medium height, gray eyes and brown hair, according to a report from Fox News. At the time, Rolla was 24 and a bookkeeper for a Tulsa oil company. His home address was in Kansas.
“Caucasian” was scribbled on the form, the report said.
Rolla Charles and Leona McCurry Payne moved from Peru, in Chautauqua, where her family lived, to Augusta in 1925, just three years after the birth of Obama’s maternal grandmother, Madelyn, according to a report from www.taylornews.org.
The Paynes lived in Winfield for about 12 years, from about 1956 to 1968, after Rolla retired from an oil company in El Dorado.
In Barack Obama’s memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” he wrote that Rolla managed an oil lease for Standard Oil, providing his family with steady income during the Depression and allowing the Paynes to lead a “respectable” life.
The Paynes “kept their house spotless and ordered ‘Great Books’ through the mail,” Obama wrote.
According to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times (Sept. 9, 2007), military records show that Rolla Payne worked as a bookkeeper for oil companies and their offshoots in Oklahoma and Kansas from at least 1917 to 1930. At least two of Leona’s brothers also worked in the oil industry, the article said.
The Paynes lived at 1221 Ann, a small, one-story ranch house, at the corner of Cherry, just east of Almedia Greever, who still lives at 1217 Ann. She remembers them well.
“They were very nice people,” Greever said. “They were retired when they came here.”
Greever was a school principal at the time, so she said most of her visiting was “over the back fence” with Leona and “at the end of the driveway” with Rolla.
“Mr. Payne liked to visit,” Greever said. When he saw her walking past his house on the way to her brother’s home in the next block, he would often go to the end of his driveway so they could chat when she was on her way home.
They joined the First United Methodist Church on April 20, 1958, according to the Roll of Full Membership of New Members, 1953-1985.
In his memoir, Obama speaks of the Paynes’ faith as being “a straight-backed form of Methodism that valued reason over passion and temperance over both.” Obama’s denomination is the United Church of Christ.
Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home has the records of the Paynes’ deaths. Leona died on March 22, 1968, and Rolla on Oct. 22. The Courier published Leona’s obituary on March 23, 1968, and Rolla’s on Oct. 23, 1968.
It was Greever’s nephew, in fact, who found Mr. Payne after he died, she said.
“His wife died in the spring, and he wasn’t too well,” Greever said. “I hadn’t seen him or his car for a few days. I asked my nephew to check on him, to see if the car was in the garage and to see if he was home.”
The nephew saw the car was in the garage but received no answer when he knocked on the door. He looked in the windows and saw Mr. Payne slumped over in a chair in a room facing Greever’s house. He had already passed away.
Not many people who lived in the neighborhood when the Paynes did are still around. Susan Norton lived at 1615 Cherry, across Ann from the Paynes, but she remembers only news of Mrs. Payne’s death.
Editor’s note: Genealogist Marvalene Ray, Haysville, and Don Birney, Winfield, first gave us information for this story.
[picture of home and graves at link]
HT: maggief
(breaking my cross-posting rule, sorry all if you read it on the longer thread)
Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home has the records of the Paynes’ deaths. Leona died on March 22, 1968, and Rolla on Oct. 22. The Courier published Leona’s obituary on March 23, 1968, and Rolla’s on Oct. 23, 1968.
Obama’s great-grandparents laid to rest in Winfield
Rolla and Leona Payne lived here and are buried at Highland Cemetery
By JUDITH ZACCARIA and TYLER GASKILL
With the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States less than two weeks away, people and communities are claiming all kinds of connections with him. This is certainly true in Kansas, where his mother’s family has roots.
Now Winfield can claim its own part of Obama because his great-grandparents - his mother’s grandparents - are buried here. Their graves are in the far southwest corner of the old section of Highland Cemetery.
On a 1917 draft registration, Rolla described himself as having a slender build, medium height, gray eyes and brown hair, according to a report from Fox News. At the time, Rolla was 24 and a bookkeeper for a Tulsa oil company. His home address was in Kansas.
“Caucasian” was scribbled on the form, the report said.
Rolla Charles and Leona McCurry Payne moved from Peru, in Chautauqua, where her family lived, to Augusta in 1925, just three years after the birth of Obama’s maternal grandmother, Madelyn, according to a report from www.taylornews.org.
The Paynes lived in Winfield for about 12 years, from about 1956 to 1968, after Rolla retired from an oil company in El Dorado.
In Barack Obama’s memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” he wrote that Rolla managed an oil lease for Standard Oil, providing his family with steady income during the Depression and allowing the Paynes to lead a “respectable” life.
The Paynes “kept their house spotless and ordered ‘Great Books’ through the mail,” Obama wrote.
According to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times (Sept. 9, 2007), military records show that Rolla Payne worked as a bookkeeper for oil companies and their offshoots in Oklahoma and Kansas from at least 1917 to 1930. At least two of Leona’s brothers also worked in the oil industry, the article said.
The Paynes lived at 1221 Ann, a small, one-story ranch house, at the corner of Cherry, just east of Almedia Greever, who still lives at 1217 Ann. She remembers them well.
“They were very nice people,” Greever said. “They were retired when they came here.”
Greever was a school principal at the time, so she said most of her visiting was “over the back fence” with Leona and “at the end of the driveway” with Rolla.
“Mr. Payne liked to visit,” Greever said. When he saw her walking past his house on the way to her brother’s home in the next block, he would often go to the end of his driveway so they could chat when she was on her way home.
They joined the First United Methodist Church on April 20, 1958, according to the Roll of Full Membership of New Members, 1953-1985.
In his memoir, Obama speaks of the Paynes’ faith as being “a straight-backed form of Methodism that valued reason over passion and temperance over both.” Obama’s denomination is the United Church of Christ.
Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home has the records of the Paynes’ deaths. Leona died on March 22, 1968, and Rolla on Oct. 22. The Courier published Leona’s obituary on March 23, 1968, and Rolla’s on Oct. 23, 1968.
It was Greever’s nephew, in fact, who found Mr. Payne after he died, she said.
“His wife died in the spring, and he wasn’t too well,” Greever said. “I hadn’t seen him or his car for a few days. I asked my nephew to check on him, to see if the car was in the garage and to see if he was home.”
The nephew saw the car was in the garage but received no answer when he knocked on the door. He looked in the windows and saw Mr. Payne slumped over in a chair in a room facing Greever’s house. He had already passed away.
Not many people who lived in the neighborhood when the Paynes did are still around. Susan Norton lived at 1615 Cherry, across Ann from the Paynes, but she remembers only news of Mrs. Payne’s death.
Editor’s note: Genealogist Marvalene Ray, Haysville, and Don Birney, Winfield, first gave us information for this story.
[picture of home and graves at link]
HT: maggief
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