“My family and I are mourning the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama, affectionately known to many as “Mama Sarah” but known to us as “Dani” or Granny,” former president Barack Obama tweeted on Monday (Mar.
29), after news broke of the matriarch’s passing. She was 99 years old. Obama shared a family photo of him alongside his grandmother, the future president sitting alongside his “Granny” in Kenya. “We will miss her dearly,” added Obama, “but we’ll celebrate with gratitude her long and remarkable life.” Mama Sarah passed away around 4 a.m.
local time while being treated at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral hospital in Kisumu, Kenya’s third-largest city, per ABC News.
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