It begins, "Marian Lois Shields Robinson — our mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother — had a way of summing up the truths ...

"Marian Lois Shields Robinson - our mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother - had a way of summing up the truths about life in a word or two, maybe a quick phrase that made everyone around her stop ...

“Are you ready for this, Grandma?” Obama asked Marian Shields Robinson, who years earlier had doubted that he and her daughter, Michelle, would last. Recommended Videos Six months ...

Marian Lois Shields was born in 1937 in Chicago's South Side and grew up in a small house with seven siblings. She married Fraser Robinson III, a pump operator for Chicago's water department ...