See Reuters, Obama says goodbye to late grandmother in Hawaii,

     President-elect Barack Obama paid his last respects on Tuesday to the woman he called the rock of his family, the grandmother who helped to raise him, before scattering her ashes from a Hawaiian shoreline.
     Madelyn Dunham, known to Obama as Toot, short for Tutu, the Hawaiian word for grandmother, took him in when his mother went to work in Indonesia and put him through private school. …
     The demands of the presidential campaign meant Obama was unable to fly to Hawaii for her funeral. But on Tuesday, he finally bade her farewell at a memorial service attended by friends and family, including his wife Michelle, daughters Malia and Sasha, and half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng. …
     Media were kept away from the First Unitarian Church in Honolulu on the island of Oahu. After the service, Obama and about a dozen others traveled to Lanai Lookout on the southeast corner of Oahu, scrambling over a wall and down to the rocky shoreline to scatter his grandmother’s ashes.
     It was the same place where Obama had scattered his mother’s ashes after her death more than a decade ago.
     Obama’s sister said in a statement earlier that the memorial service would allow him to “grieve and emotionally process” the loss of the woman he called the rock of his family and whose name he frequently invoked on the campaign trail. …

     Poignant.
     RIP “Toot”. You gave us all a lot, and it is appreciated.