Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama, who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, has died. She was 86.
Robinson’s death has been announced in an online tribute by Michelle Obama, which included details of the time Robinson spent living in the White House as an informal first grandmother to the Obama children. Following her death, former president of the United States, Barack Obama, has paid tribute in a statement to the “extraordinary gift of her life.”
PS: Marian was born in 1937 on Chicago’s South Side and grew up in a small house with seven siblings. She married Fraser Robinson III, a pump operator for Chicago’s water department, in 1960, and they had two children: Craig in 1962 and Michelle two years later. Robinson worked as a secretary and for a bank before becoming a stay-at-home mother.
