Obama Mystery Theater: Vernon, Texas – Weekend Open Thread

© Miri WTPOTUS November 18, 2011

With a huge hat tip to kittycat77 and Bridgette, here’s a montage of images from a news story about Stanley Ann Dunham’s days as an elementary school student in Vernon, Texas, circa 1951-1952.

First, in the interest of educating the people of the USA about Barack Hussein Obama’s family, here’s the text of the story in full:

Reported by: Ann Arnold

Just a few weeks after president Barack Obama took office, we’re learning he has a connection to Texoma.           

Long before anyone knew she would become the mother of the President of the United States, Stanley Ann Dunham, named after her father, lived in Vernon. That small part of her life might have been forgotten, if not for one curious resident of the Texoma town.

Derrel Wall, owner of the courtyard cafe in Vernon, says he heard a little tidbit on television that the president’s mother once lived in Vernon. He started doing a little research and found out it was true. 

He says, “Stanley Ann Dunham was a third grader at the time. She was 8-years-old. This was signed by Mrs. Stanley Dunham, of course that’s the grandmother who raised Obama, and died the day before he was elected.” 

This week Wall found a school annual with Dunham’s picture inside. In the basement of the Wilbarger County Courthouse, he found a school census form with her birthday, phone number and even the address of the home where she lived. 

He says, “Sometimes people ask me why I’m interested in where she lived. Well, I’m just interested in local history. Maybe this is just one more item that would bring people here.”           

The Dunham’s name was found in the Methodist Church roster from back in 1951, and we found several classmates who remembered playing with the future president’s mother. 

Kay Bellew says, “We were in fourth grade. She was in my bluebird group. She was a friend. Not a real close friend because she wasn’t here very long. She was a very sweet girl that everyone liked.”

Francis Lowe was Dunham’s classmate. She says, “She was very nice, and very straight forward. We all liked her because she was very honest and very genuine.”

After about a year, the Dunham’s packed up and headed for the west coast according to Wall’s research. He says the Obama connection is really no surprise. 

“Everywhere I go, everyone I talk to, even people I visit with in this cafe, they all have a connection to Vernon, TX. We now have another connection,” Wall says.

After leaving Vernon, Wall says the Dunham’s moved to Washington State, California and Hawaii.

As reported by Bridgette, this article was “scrubbed”; the link she had no longer worked. However, I found it in a roundabout way, which seems to indicate that perhaps the story (I find no date on it) was updated or modified after originally being published. The current link is not archived at WayBack Machine, so it’s not possible to tell if the story’s been “modified” in any way.  The site uses that tricksy “robots text”.  Why?

It’s of note that one of the chief informants about Stanley Ann’s high school days on Mercer Island, in Washington State, is a man known as Chip Wall.  How is it that Mr. Derrel Wall knew that Stanley Ann’s family moved to Washington State, California, and then to Hawaii?  Well, he does “research” her family, for some reason. Could he be a “birther”?  Somehow, I think not.

The house in Vernon, Texas, where the Dunhams allegedly lived at 2227 Roberts:

Have we seen that house before? 

Stanley Ann Dunham in the Hawkins Elementary school annual, when she was allegedly 8 years old:

Note that she looks nothing like another photo, allegedly of Stanley Ann Dunham in Oklahoma at elementary school.  Or does she?

The little girl in Mr. Derrel Wall’s booklet does, however, look like the grown woman who is being foisted off as the real mother of BHO II.

Full page from the booklet:

From another photo in the video (see story to view entire video):

The full page from which the previous photo was excerpted:

Two friends of SAD’s from those days.  The first is Kathryn (Kay) Robertson Bellew:

SAD in a school play (in the bolero jacket with sash):

In keeping with Obama tradition, we now see a copy of what looks like her school registration, although Mr. Wall refers to it as a census:

Interesting handwriting. Looks rather familiar.  Madelyn signs as “Mrs. Stanley A. Dunham”.  The child’s dob given: 11/29/1942.  A close up of the address:

Somebody can’t spell Stanley!  Do you see a phone number?  Who is J. B. Golden?  I seem to remember another Golden:

Coinkidinks ABOUND in the Obamaverse. Here’s a story about yet another Obama-connected Golden: Quin Golden, chief of staff for Obama’s very good friend Dr. Eric Whitaker.

So, what say u? OPEN THREAD.