Obama's mother was Ann Dunham (1942-1995). Her legal first name was Stanley, but she never liked to use it. She was born in Wichita, KS, while her father was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, KS in 1942. She lived in the Wichita area during World War II, where her mother worked at a bomb manufacturing plant. After World War II, her parents eventually moved to Hawaii with her. She went to the University of Hawaii where she met Barack Obama Sr, a student from Kenya. They were married February 2, 1961, and Barack II (the future president) was born on August 4th. Barack's parents later divorced (it turned out he was not entirely honest about another wife, back home in Kenya). Barack's father stayed in the U.S. and studied at Harvard for a while, but ultimately returned to Kenya. Ann later married