Stanley Armour Dunham
| Stanley Armour Dunham | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 23, 1918 Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | February 8, 1992 (aged 73) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Buried at | Punchbowl National Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
|
| Service/branch |
 United States Army
|
| Years of service | 1942–1945 |
| Rank |
 Sergeant
|
| Unit | 1830th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Company Third Army |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Spouse(s) | Madelyn Payne Dunham |
| Relations |
Stanley Ann Dunham (daughter) Barack Obama (grandson) Maya Soetoro-Ng (granddaughter) Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Sr. and Ruth Lucille Armour (parents) |
| Other work | Salesman |
Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918 – February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama. He and his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dunham was born in Wichita, Kansas, the younger of two sons to Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Sr. (December 25, 1894, Sumner County, Kansas – October 4, 1970, Wichita, Kansas) and Ruth Lucille Armour (September 1, 1900, Illinois – November 25, 1926, Wichita, Kansas). His father's ancestors settled in Kempton, Indiana, in the 1840s, before relocating to Kansas. His parents were married on October 3, 1915, at a home on South Saint Francis St. in Wichita, and opened The Travelers' Cafe on William Street situated between the old firehouse and the old Wichita City Hall.
On November 25, 1926, at age 8, Dunham discovered his mother's body after she had committed suicide. Following Dunham's mother's suicide, Dunham's father placed Dunham and his older brother Ralph Emerson Dunham, Jr. in the care of their maternal grandparents in El Dorado, Kansas. A rebellious teenager, Stanley Dunham allegedly punched his high school principal and spent some time drifting, hopping rail cars to Chicago, California, and back again. Dunham married Madelyn Lee Payne on May 5, 1940, the night of her senior prom.
Dunham enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army on January 18, 1942, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and served in the European Theatre of World War II with the 1830th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Company, Aviation. During D-Day, this unit helped to support the 9th Air Force. Dunham and his brother were deployed to France six weeks after D-Day. Before the Invasion of Normandy, the brothers once met accidentally as Stanley Dunham went in search of rations at a hotel in London, where his brother Ralph Dunham happened to be staying. Madelyn Dunham gave birth to their daughter Stanley Ann Dunham, who was later known as Ann, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita on November 29, 1942. During the war, Madelyn Dunham worked on a Boeing B-29 assembly line in Wichita.
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