{"id":2900,"date":"2024-07-06T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T20:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2024-07-06T20:35:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T20:35:58","slug":"our-thoughts-and-prayers-go-out-to-the-obama-family-for-their-tragic-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/our-thoughts-and-prayers-go-out-to-the-obama-family-for-their-tragic-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Obama family for their tragic loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maria Robinson, Michelle Obama\u2019s mother, died early Friday morning. She was 86 years old.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Robinson\u2019s family said in a statement that he died peacefully.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cAs a mother, she was our backstop, a calm and nonjudgmental witness to our triumphs and stumbles,\u201d it said.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/tearsoffaith.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/06%5C/3.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-13285\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>Robinson became known as the first grandmother in the US when her son-in-law, Barack Obama, won the presidency in 2008.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Michelle Obama said that her mother was her rock in a different statement.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cAlways there for me no matter what,\u201d she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cShe was the same steady backstop for our entire family, and we are heartbroken to share she passed away today.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>Robinson was a well-known figure in the White House during both of Obama\u2019s terms, but she didn\u2019t draw too much attention to herself.\n\n\n\n</p><p>While she was traveling abroad, she went to holiday events and concerts in the East Room.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/tearsoffaith.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/06%5C/4.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-13286\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>But she mostly spent time with Sasha and Malia, her granddaughters.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cWe will all miss her greatly, and we wish she were here to offer us some perspective, to mend our heavy hearts with a laugh and a dose of her wisdom,\u201d read the family\u2019s statement.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cYet we feel better knowing that she is back in the arms of her loving Fraser, that she has moved her TV tray next to his recliner, and that they are clinking their highball glasses while she tells him stories about this crazy, beautiful ride.\u201d \u201cShe\u2019s really missed him.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>Robinson had lived in Chicago her whole life, but she agreed to move to Washington, DC, in 2009 to help take care of her young granddaughters in the White House.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cWe had to have her. She was needed by the girls. \u201cShe was our rock through it all,\u201d the family wrote in a tribute.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cShe relished her role as a grandmother to Malia and Sasha \u2014 just as she doted on Avery, Leslie, Austin, and Aaron.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>Robinson was born in 1937 in Chicago and grew up on the South Side of the city. She also raised her two children, Michelle and Craig Robinson, there.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/tearsoffaith.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/06%5C/5.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-13287\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>She got married to Fraser C. Robinson III in 1960. He died in 1991 of multiple sclerosis.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Robinson had a big change when he moved from the South Side to the White House. He wasn\u2019t used to being waited on.\n\n\n\n</p><p>At work, she often had to beg people to let her do her own work, like laundry.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cRather than hobnobbing with Oscar winners or Nobel laureates, she preferred spending her time upstairs with a TV tray, in the room outside her bedroom with big windows that looked out at the Washington Monument,\u201d people said.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cThe only guest she made a point of asking to meet was the Pope.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>TRIBUTES THAT EMBRACE<br>A lot of people wrote tributes to Robinson. Billie Jean King, who won 39 Grand Slams, wrote one.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cSending our deepest condolences to the Obama family today upon the passing of Marian Robinson, the Former First Lady\u2019s mother,\u201d the writer said.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cI got to spend some time with her alone at the Arthur Ashe Kids Day at the US Open in 2013.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cMay she rest in peace.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>She wrote, \u201cMy family sends our love.\u201d We\u2019re so sorry for your loss.\u201d\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/tearsoffaith.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/06%5C/6.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-13288\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>For some reason, Lin-Manuel Miranda couldn\u2019t look any of you in the eye from the stage when you invited him to perform at the White House in 2009.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cI didn\u2019t feel calm and ready to go until I looked over and saw your mom\u2019s encouraging smile.\n\n\n\n</p><p>They couldn\u2019t believe she wasn\u2019t here. We will pray for you and your family every day and in the coming weeks.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>Maria Robinson, Michelle Obama\u2019s mother, died early Friday morning. She was 86 years old. 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