Fraser Robinson had a strong work ethic and embodied perseverance.
He had multiple sclerosis, which made everything he did including mobility, walking, and speech a challenge.
Even then, he continued to work at one of Chicago’s water filtration plants, tending to boilers.
Michelle Obama lost her father in 1991, when he was just 55.
“My father, Fraser, taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word.
My mother, Marian, showed me how to think for myself and to use my voice.
And I was worried about my grandkids that’s what got me to move to DC.”
““I wanted them to come home to family,” Obama explained toEssence.
When I traveled internationally grandma was there.
When I wasn’t home at the end of the day, grandma was there,” Obama says.
After that, they simply let us be ourselves," Obama writes inPeople.
