Posted on 11/07/2009 4:09:30 PM PST by Saije
IN a remote corner of rural Java, a blacksmith and his family were astounded last week to learn that the American woman who helped save them from poverty 26 years ago was Ann Dunham, an anthropologist better known as the late mother of the US president.
Dunham is still remembered in the central Javan hamlet of Kajar as a generous benefactor whose gifts of money, food and schoolbooks helped numerous villagers. Yet none of them had realised that the woman who paid several visits to research rural crafts in the 1980s had a son who was to become Americas 44th president.
Told by The Sunday Times that Dunham was Barack Obamas mother, Darmo Sujak, a 67-year-old blacksmith, said he was shocked to discover the full identity of the woman who had changed his life.
Sujak recalled how Dunham arrived at his home in 1983 in a white Jeep with more than 100lb of rice, sweets, pens and school books.
He said Dunham, who died of cancer in Hawaii in 1995 at the age of 52, had given him four donations worth the equivalent of $1,000. The money enabled him to build his house, expand his business and pay for his childrens education.
Other villagers recognised Dunham, and themselves, from photographs that are included with parts of her graduate thesis in a book that will be published next month with a foreword by Maya Soetoro-Ng, Dunhams daughter by her second marriage and Obamas half-sister.
Soetoro-Ng said last week she was happy to learn that her mother was still remembered in the Javan villages where she did most of her research while Barack, then a teenager, remained in Hawaii with his grandparents.
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A Half-brother was on Larry King last night crying becuse his father (also Obama’s father) beat up his mother. What a family......just a Black Clinton family....loose mother and abusive father......BAD COMBO...producing BAD CHILDREN!
Ann Dunham I believe, worked for Tim the TAX CHEAT Geithners’ Father who was the head of a foundation giving this money away.
Obama Sr. was MARRIED to someone else when Bayy was born.
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