It's only complicated if you don't have a memory like an elephant:
To: Brown Deer
Yes, I remember him, looks like a nice fellow, sang country music...
Heres one source for the Saudi background, but they want a subscrition to go futher:
Obamas first cousin, Layla Goeldner, is married to a Saudi Arabian man named Abdullah al Ahmadi.
Obamas uncle installed core banking computer systems in Riyadh.
For a photograph of Obamas cousin with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, see Chapter 8 here:
[link to obamasgarden.wordpress.com]
So its our old friend Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Adbulaziz AlSaud, handing over the award. We all remember him too, dont we?
802 posted on 6/02/2014 10:27:19 AM by Fred Nerks
Of course, no one in this comment is an uncle of Obama, but Mr Goeldner, husband of Virginia Goeldner, did install banking systems in Riyadh.
Mr & Mrs Goeldner.
MAUMELLE, Ark. Cecil Max Goeldner, 75, passed away Monday, March 18, 2013. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26, at Smith Mortuary, 1415 N. Rock Rd., Derby, with visitation 10 a.m. until service time.
He was born July 3, 1937, in Butler County, to Cecil B. and Hazel Maxine MacKay Goeldner. He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Maumelle, and lead guitarist of The Grandpas.
He was a retired Boeing employee, a co-founder of Data Center Inc. in Kansas, and Pacesetter in Michigan, and was a computer systems analyst for Systematics and Alltel.
He was preceded in death by daughter, Donna Elaine Goeldner.
Survivors include wife, Virginia (Dunham) Goeldner of Maumelle; daughter, Layla Cecil Goeldner of Saudi Arabia; son, Kevin Blake Goeldner of Aledo, Texas; grandchildren, Nadia, Maria, Dania, Abdulrahman, Omar, Grace and Seth; great-grandchildren, Abdullah, Jena, Adam, Tariq and Sami.
Maumelle Couple Excited About Their Nephew’s New Job: President-Elect
November 13, 2008
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2162856/posts
https://web.archive.org/web/20020526160300/http://home.att.net/~c.goeldner/whois_1.html
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While working at Boeing, I met Ginger (Virginia Dunham).
https://web.archive.org/web/20020526160300/http://home.att.net/~c.goeldner/whois_3.html
I have benefitted in that some of the clients I’ve supported in the last few years have been in foreign countries and I have enjoyed several assignments in England, Puerto Rico, Greece and even Saudi Arabia.
https://web.archive.org/web/20020526160300/http://home.att.net/~c.goeldner/whois_4.html
Our daughter Debbie, graduated from Hutchinson Community Junior College before we left Kansas. Then she attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence, graduated with honors in Linguistics and became the first member of our family to receive a college degree. Today she is married, has five children all in school and is currently the Administrative Head of the English Department of an all girls school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Her husband, Abdullah Al-Ahmadi is a Civil Engineer and a manager with Saudi Aramco.