Stanley Dunham gives his wife Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham a hug in a World War II-era family photo. The couple are the maternal grandparents of Sen. Barack Obama. Madelyn Dunham died of cancer Sunday. She was 86. (Obama Presidential Campaign / Associated Press)
Barack Obama in 1979 during his high school graduation in Hawaii with his maternal grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, and his grandmother, Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham. (Obama Presidential Campaign / Associated Press)
Barack Obama with his grandparents Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham when Obama was a student at Columbia University. (Obama Presidential Campaign / Associated Press)