Stanley is the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama , who lived at his home from boyhood to high school. Obama knew him as "Gramps," and Stanley referred to him as "Bar. In high school in El Dorado, Kansas, Stanley was expelled for punching the principal in the nose.
Described as "gregarious, friendly, impetuous, challenging and loud," he was a furniture salesman "who could charm the legs off a couch. In Stanley fell in love with a woman from the good side of the tracks and married her. He could have held off. In February , at Saint-Dizier his unit was transferred to infantry and assigned to Patton's 3rd Army.
Prior to that his unit supported 1st Army operations. During the war, Madelyn Dunham worked as supervison on the night shift at a Boeing B assembly line in Wichita. Madelyn gave birth to a daughter whom they named Stanley Ann at Fort Leavenworth on November 29, After two years of military service in Europe , Stanley was discharged from the U.
Army on August 30, With Madelyn and Stanley both working full-time, the family moved to Berkeley, California, where Stanley briefly attended the university, but dropped out, then to Ponca City, Oklahoma, then to Vernon, Texas, and then to El Dorado, Kansas, where Stanley managed a furniture store.
They lived in an apartment in the Wedgewood Estates in the Wedgwood, Seattle neighborhood. Madelyn and Stanley then moved to Honolulu. Madelyn started working at the Bank of Hawaii in and was promoted to be one of the first female bank vice presidents in It was a small ceremony with a few of his bridge and golf partners in attendance, a three-gun salute, and a bugle playing taps, according to Obama's biography.
