Honoring the President’s Mother

" JAKARTA, Indonesia – President Obama was welcomed as a hometown boy made good – exceedingly good – when he arrived here Tuesday afternoon. But long before he became president, his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, touched many lives in Indonesia, where she worked as an anthropologist, becoming a pioneer in microfinance and creating services like credit and savings for the poor.

So it was that Ms. Dunham, who died in 1995, was honored here Tuesday evening with a gold medal, accepted by her son on her behalf in a gesture that the president said left him 'deeply moved'. "


She was nicknamed Anna, later known as Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, and finally Ann Dunham Sutoro. Born 1942 in Wichita, Kansas, Dunham spent her childhood in California, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas and her teenage years in Mercer Island, Washington, and much of her adult life in Hawaii and Indonesia. She died 1995.