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Mon., Nov. 3, 2008

Obama’s Grandmother, 86, RIP

Courtesy: Obama Presidential Campaign
This photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows Obama in 1979 during his high school graduation in Hawaii with his grandmother Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham. Sen. Obama says his grandmother died Monday. Story here.

Posted Nov. 3, 2008, 2:01 p.m.

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