Michelle Obama’s mother has died. Marian Robinson was 86 years old. She played an important role during Barack Obama’s presidency.
The mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama died on Friday. The family announced this. Marian Robinson was 86 years old. “She passed away peacefully this morning and right now none of us really know how we will go on without her,” the statement said.
When her daughter moved into the White House with former President Barack Obama after the 2008 election, the Chicago native came with her. “We needed her. The girls needed her. And in the end, she was our rock,” the family said. “She relished her role as a grandmother. And although she enforced any household rules we set about bedtime, watching TV or eating candy, she made it clear that she would side with her grandchildren when she felt their parents were being too strict.”
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The statement was shared by Michelle and Barack Obama, Michelle’s brother Craig Robinson and his wife Kelly, and Marian Robinson’s grandchildren Avery, Leslie, Malia, Sasha, Austin and Aaron.
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Obama also remembered her mother with a moving message on X. “My mother, Marian Robinson, was my rock, always there when I needed something,” she wrote. “She was the same constant support for our entire family, and we are heartbroken that she passed away today.”
Barack Obama also expressed his condolences on her death. “There was and will be only one Marian Robinson. In our grief, we are lifted by the extraordinary gift of her life. And we will spend the rest of our lives living up to her example,” the former president wrote in a tweet.
Michelle Obama’s father, Fraser Robinson, died in 1991. He suffered from multiple sclerosis and was only 55 years old.
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