deaths
November 2, 2008
Madelyn Dunham, American banker and business executive (born 1922)
Madelyn Dunham
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham was an American banker and the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment. She died on November 2, 2008, two days before her grandson was elected president.
November 2
November 2 is the 306th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 59 days remain until the end of the year.