Obama Family Announces Tragic Loss

The family of former President Barack Obama has announced the tragic passing of Marian Robinson, the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama.

According to Page Six, Robinson, who was 86, “passed peacefully” on Friday, according to a joint statement from the Obamas on Instagram. “My mom Marian Robinson was my rock, always there for whatever I needed. She was the same steady backstop for our entire family, and we are heartbroken to share she passed away today. We wanted to offer some reflections on her remarkable life,” Michelle wrote, including stories about her childhood.

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Robinson “had a way of summing up the truths about life in a word or two… Her wisdom came off as almost innate, as something she was born with, but in reality it was hard-earned, fashioned by her deep understanding that the world’s roughest edges could always be sanded down with a little grace.” Among her maxims: “Don’t sweat the small stuff,” “Know what’s truly precious,” and “As a parent, you’re not raising babies — you’re raising little people.”

Born in Chicago in 1937, Robinson was one of seven children who grew up on the city’s red-lined South Side, experiencing the disadvantages that came with a segregated city and under-resourced inner-city schools. Michelle Obama added that her grandfather was denied union work for larger construction firms. Despite the hardships, both he and Robinson woke their kids up most mornings to the sound of jazz records as an alarm clock. “She learned early that even in the face of hardship, there was music to be found,” she wrote of her mother.

Sad to be learning that we have lost this bright light on the planet. Blessings of peace to all those who knew and loved Marian Robinson. pic.twitter.com/vnLMNJ0lre

— AZgrace (@AZgraceJMC) June 3, 2024

Robinson supplemented the family’s income while working as a secretary and found time to volunteer with the parent-teacher association while teaching Michelle and her brother Craig to read from an early age. She was also their fierce defender in the face of injustice and encouraged her children over dinner to ask questions about the issues of the day. Robinson supported her husband’s pivot from a finance job into coaching basketball, as she did Michelle’s marriage to President Obama, the former first lady wrote. Robinson later moved into the White House with her daughter to help raise former first daughters Malia and Sasha Obama.

“The trappings of glamour of the White House were never a great fit for Marian Robinson,” Michelle wrote. “‘Just show me how to work the washing machine and I’m good,’ she’d say. Rather 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. The only guest she made a point of asking to meet was the Pope. Over those eight years, she made great friends with the ushers and butlers, the folks who make the White House a home.”

After the Obamas left the White House in 2017, Robinson returned to Chicago where she reconnected with old friends, Michelle concluded along with her brothers, sisters, and other relatives who signed the post.

“There was and will be only one Marian Robinson. In our sadness, we are lifted up by the extraordinary gift of her life. And we will spend the rest of ours trying to live up to her example.”

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