“We will miss her dearly, but we’ll celebrate with gratitude her long and remarkable life,” the former president tweeted.
Former President Barack Obama Monday mourned the death of his “beloved” Kenyan grandmother after she died overnight at age 99. Obama paid tribute to Sarah Onyango Obama after his father’s step-mother died of natural causes at a hospital in the western Kenyan city of Kisumu. “We will miss her dearly, but we’ll celebrate with gratitude her long and remarkable life,” the former president tweeted. Although many Kenyans fondly referred to the Obama matriarch as “Mama Sarah,” the former president said the family simply called her “Dani,” which means grandma in the local Luo language.
