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March 31, 2014 at 8:32 p.m. EDT. XI'AN, China — It was a rare, almost intimate scene, between Michelle Obama and her mother, played out before the world. When a group of Chinese girls invited the...
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.
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.
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. Rachel Swarns reconstructs Michelle Obama's...
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 daughter...
Mrs. Obama's special Mother’s Day message honoring Marian Robinson. Growing up with my mom always was an adventure. It entailed trips to the library as a toddler to learn the alphabet; the entire family piling into our car to go to the local drive-in—homemade chicken in hand.
Tragically, her husband Fraser passed away on March 6, 1991. Michelle characterized her mother as direct, truthful, and unwaveringly supportive. As a child, Shields enriched Michelle’s education by taking her to the library before entering school and guided her reading and writing lessons.
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