Very obviously contrived. And there is no reason at all why people who had just moved from the mainland would call Grandma “Toot”. Pretty much only kamaainas (local people or longterm residents) even use “Tutu” for grandma and I never heard anyone using “toot”. Stupid.
And the Ann/Anna thing - we have read Stanley Ann never called herself Ann what to speak of Anna.
Now the Anna Toot part - that reminds me of the last name of Mary Toutohnghi (sp?). Connection?
And could she have been the woman the missionary accompanied as described above by Brown Deer?
I've been thinking the same.
Every freeper from Hawaii has made exactly that same observation.
And the Ann/Anna thing - we have read Stanley Ann never called herself Ann what to speak of Anna.
Susan Blake, in her original video (which has now been cut down to almost nothing) made a point of saying that Stanley Ann Dunham ALWAYS introduced herself as STANLEY. But that was before Charlette LeFevre found the listing for ANNA OBAMA in the Seattle directory.
Now the Anna Toot part - that reminds me of the last name of Mary Toutohnghi (sp?). Connection?
When the kenyan wrote home to tell them he was working for an oil company and had married a white woman named ANNA TOOT, it would appear obvious they had to incorporate the name ANNA and TOOT into 'Dreams' in case someone remembered, (which some of the family evidently DID remember...)
The TOOT/TOUT/TOUTHONGHI idea isn't far-fetched IMO. There are members of the family who did shorten their name to TOUT and one used the nickname ATOOT on an Amazon page, now removed.
And could she have been the woman the missionary accompanied as described above by Brown Deer?
If anyone went to Kenya to await the birth of the child of the Kenyan, it would have been ANNA...but I fail to see the purpose of such a long journey. However, it does fit to a certain extend with Susan Blake saying 'she sent me a post-card from a ship.'