1.0link153279<![CDATA[Obama Attends Memorial Service For Grandmother]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/24/obama-attends-memorial-se_n_153279.htmlHONOLULU — President-elect Barack Obama gathered with family and friends on Tuesday for a private memorial service for the beloved grandmother who helped raise him.
Madelyn Payne Dunham, known to her friends as "Toot", died Nov. 2, two days before Obama won election to become the nation's first African-American president. She was 86.