floor apartment in Hawaii where she raised Obama. She died late Sunday after a battle with cancer, at the age of 86. Last month, Obama took a break from campaigning and flew to Hawaii to be with Dunham as her health declined. He said he didn't want to make the “same mistake twice”, and get there “too late” , just as when his mother died of ovarian cancer in 1995 at 53. His father, who was from Kenya and also named Barack Obama, is deceased. __
