{"id":3211,"date":"2025-08-12T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailylifee.pw\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:11:06","slug":"obama-familys-sad-announcement-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailylifee.pw\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"Obama Family\u2019s Sad Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Robinson relocated from her hometown of Chicago to assist in caring for her granddaughters during the Obama administration, she became a mainstay of the White House.<\/p>\n

According to a family statement provided to NBC News, Marian Robinson, the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama, passed away. Robinson was eighty-six.<\/p>\n

According to the family statement, \u201cShe passed away quietly this morning, and at this time, none of us is quite sure how exactly we\u2019ll move on without her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The family statement comes from Marian Robinson\u2019s grandchildren, Avery, Leslie, Malia, Sasha, Austin, and Aaron; Craig Robinson and his wife, Kelly; and Michelle and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Following her son-in-law Barack Obama\u2019s victory in the 2008 presidential election, Robinson gained national recognition as the nation\u2019s first grandmother. Despite keeping a low profile, she was a mainstay in the White House during his eight years in office. She went to concerts in the East Room, occasionally traveled abroad, and attended holiday gatherings. However, she spent most of her time with her granddaughters, Malia and Sasha.<\/p>\n

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After spending her entire life in Chicago, Robinson consented to relocate to Washington, D.C., in 2009 to live in the White House residence and assist in caring for her seven- and ten-year-old granddaughters.<\/p>\n

Later, in a CBS interview, she remarked of her daughter and son-in-law, \u201cI felt like this was going to be a very hard life for both of them.\u201d Additionally, I was concerned about my grandchildren\u2019s safety. That\u2019s what led me to relocate to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Robinson\u2019s family said in a statement on Friday that she accepted the departure from Chicago after receiving \u201ca healthy nudge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was necessary to us. She was needed by the girls. And she proved to be our pillar of support during it all,\u201d they remarked.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe enjoyed being a grandmother\u2026. They added, \u201cShe made it plain that she agreed with her \u2018grandbabies\u2019 in believing that their parents were too damn strict, even though she enforced whatever rules we had set for the house regarding bedtime, watching TV, and eating candy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew Mrs. Marian Robinson as a dedicated mother and grandmother with a fierce and unconditional love of her family,\u201d President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden said in a statement issued on Saturday. With each gentle grin or tender hug she gave us, we were blessed with friendship and experienced that love for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire Biden family sends its deepest love to Michelle, Craig, Barack, Kelly, and the six irrepressible grandchildren whom she helped to raise and so loved, and in whom her kind and gentle spirit lives on,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n

Born in 1937 in Chicago, Robinson grew up in the South Side of the city, raising her son Craig and daughter. Fraser Robinson, her spouse, passed away from multiple sclerosis in 1991.<\/p>\n

His mother-in-law was once referred to by the former president as \u201cthe least pretentious person I know.\u201d In fact, Robinson claimed in the CBS interview that she persuaded White House residence staff to allow her to do her own laundry, stating that it was a \u201chuge adjustment\u201d they were waiting on.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than hobnobbing with Oscar winners or Nobel laureates, she preferred spending her time upstairs with a TV tray, in the room outside her bedroom with big windows that looked out at the Washington Monument,\u201d the family stated in a statement on Friday. \u201cThe only guest she made a point of asking to meet was the Pope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinson was credited by the former president with keeping his daughters grounded during their White House upbringing.<\/p>\n

He stated in an interview on \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d that \u201cshe\u2019s down to earth and she doesn\u2019t understand all the fuss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michelle Obama and her mother had a close relationship. At the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Robinson narrated the biographical video that introduced her daughter. \u201cMy saying is when I grow up, I would like to be like Michelle Obama,\u201d Robinson added after leaving the White House.<\/p>\n

Michelle Obama honored her mother on Mother\u2019s Day a few weeks ago by announcing that an exhibit at the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago would bear her name.<\/p>\n

In a video announcement, the former first lady stated, \u201cShe taught me how to think for myself, how to use my own voice, and how to understand my own worth, and in so many ways she fostered in me a deep sense of confidence in who I was and who I could be.\u201d \u201cWithout my mother, I just wouldn\u2019t be who I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was and will be only one Marian Robinson,\u201d the family said in a statement issued Friday. \u201cThe extraordinary gift of her life lifts us up in our sadness.\u201d And we\u2019ll try to follow her example for the rest of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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