Methinks he spent five years on the mainland, married a woman named Anna Toot and worked for an oil company, just like the relatives in Kenya said he did.
Now don’t bother telling me about Stanley Ann Dunham being Anna and Madelyn being Toot. They did THAT already in ‘Dreams’.
“Methinks he spent five years on the mainland, married a woman named Anna Toot and worked for an oil company, just like the relatives in Kenya said he did.”
So per your scenario at age 19 in 1955 he leaves Kenya for the mainland USA, marries, works for an “oil company” for five years and then shows up in HI in 1960?
A US oil company hiring a 19 year old Kenyan in 1955 would be a bit far fetched to me, but this whole thing is way past bizarre!
Given my experience with reporters screwing up dates and ages as well as the memory of aging folks getting confused, I think I’ll go with him leaving Kenya in 1959 for HI.
If you have more on Anna Toot, the oil company or where and how he might have come to the mainland in 1955 and then gotten to HI I would love to consider it, of course.
The fact remains that it would be very easy for the aging relatives in Kenya 40+ years after the fact to conflate the nicknames of Stanley Ann and Madelyn Dunham.