President Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who won asylum in 2010 after living illegally in Boston for several years, died on Monday night in a nursing home in the city, her legal team said.
The law office of Margaret W. Wong, one of Onyango’s immigration lawyers, confirmed on Tuesday that she died the night before in her sleep at the Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation Harborlights facility in South Boston.
Onyango, 61, had taken ill in January and suffered from breast cancer and respiratory problems, Wong and a relative said. Information on funeral arrangements was not available.
The White House had no comment on Onyango’s passing. She was a native of Kenya and moved to South Boston in 2000, Wong’s office said. She was the half-sister of Obama’s late father.
A receptionist at the South Boston nursing home where Onyango died said on Tuesday that no one was available to speak with the media.culled
RIP dear one. @least she had access to d bst medical care...can we speak same of her nigerian counterparts?
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ReplyDeleteRIP aunty. But the man does not really associate himself much with his African side. Na him sabi.
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DeleteSisi Eko, do not misunderstand me oh, I just think he's more closer to his mother's side of the family, I might be wrong. And I see them more around.
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May her soul rest in perfect peace.
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ReplyDeletelisa spencer you are such an ignorant bitch yet you delight in commenting on every story......you are so pathetic......if you have no facts shut the eff up already...bunmi let me educate you.....being in an institution doesnt mean you have no family who cares for you.....families keep their loved ones there so they have round the clock care cos they have to go to work and do other things while some have no family member at all...gosh ignorance here is appalling
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She mightn't have had the best care. She was an undocumented immigrant who was almost awaiting deportation to Kenya. Her asylum may have gone awry and without a good health insurance goodluck to her getting any comprehensive health care.
ReplyDeleteLisa Spencer no wahala if you watched both inaugurations both families were there mother and father side both half sisters Maya and Auma vacation with his family it seems those are the two sisters he is close to. Both his mother and maternal grandparents are dead the only living close relative from his mother is his sister Maya whom he grew up with so it would make sense that they have a special bond he only physically met Auma when he was in college but he always communicated with his fathers family all this while it his Kenyan aunt who placed the call to him when his father died. Try and read his autobiography it will shed a lot of light. This aunt that passed away he once visited when she was still in Kenya it's all in the book find it and read it.
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