Obama speaks of Payne and his daughter, nicknamed Toot, in his memoirs. Toot was Obama’s grandmother.
“Toot’s family was respectable,” he wrote. “Her father held a steady job all through the Depression, managing an oil lease for Standard Oil.
“The family kept their house spotless and ordered Great Books through the mail; they read the Bible but generally shunned the tent revival circuit, preferring a straight-backed form of Methodism that valued reason over passion and temperance over both.”
Obama’s denomination is the United Church of Christ.
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