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The elusive Mrs. R.: Marian Robinson, the White House’s not-so-typical live-in grandma. XI'AN, China — It was a rare, almost intimate scene, between Michelle Obama and her mother, played out ...
Jul 1, 2012 · The Shield and Robinson lines met in 1959 in Chicago, where Fraser and Marian Shields Robinson married and raised their children, Craig and Michelle.
Jul 14, 2021 · Due to her many obligations as first lady, which included international travel, Michelle Obama asked her mother, Marian Shields Robinson, to move into the White House as a way to help the girls adjust and maintain a sense of normalcy (via The Daily Mail ). Obama shares a close relationship with her mother.
Marian Shields Robinson, born July 1937, Chicago, Illinois; married to Fraser Robinson, 1960 in Chicago; a stay-at-home mother while her children were young, Mrs. Robinson later worked as secretary in the offices of Spiegel Catalogue until the 2008 presidential election.
Nov 13, 2018 · "I felt like this was going to be a very hard life for both of them," said Marian Shields Robinson, who moved with the first family to Washington when Mr. Obama took office. She and her...
This morning, former First Lady Michelle Obama shared the note below with our email subscribers announcing that the "Opening the White House" exhibit in the Obama Presidential Center Museum will be named in honor of her mother, Marian Robinson. Watch the reveal, then learn more about the Center.
Marian Shields (86 years old) was born in 1937 in Chicago and was the fourth child from a family of seven – five girls and then two boys. Her parents, Purnell Nathaniel Shields, a house painter and carpenter, and Rebecca Jumper, a licensed practical nurse, both had multi-racial ancestry.
