{"id":5164,"date":"2014-09-11T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2014-09-12T03:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T07:40:05","slug":"the-thriller-series-pn-1-eleanor-nordyke-in-africa-dead-at-age-86-jan-17-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-thriller-series-pn-1-eleanor-nordyke-in-africa-dead-at-age-86-jan-17-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thriller Series (PN-1): African explorer Eleanor Nordyke dead at age 86 in Honolulu, Hawaii (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7gHwiD8zDJM\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eleanor Nordyke (born Eleanor Louise Cole) passed away on January 17th 2014 in Honolulu, Hawaii.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She was born on June 15th 1927 in Los Angeles, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As most readers already know her twin daughters were born at Kapiolani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 5th 1961. \u00a0 You can view their birth certificates here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the.honoluluadvertiser.com\/dailypix\/2009\/Jul\/28\/M1139416728.GIF\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Susan Elizabeth Nordyke (Bell) \u00a0and \u00a0Gretchen Carter Nordyke (Worthington)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eleanor also went by the name Ellie. \u00a0She earned a five-year nursing degree at Stanford University in 1950. \u00a0She married Robert Allan Nordyke on June 18th 1950.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eleanor was similar, in many ways, to Stanley Ann Dunham (Obama&#8217;s mother).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For example, Eleanor was adventurous and she too traveled to Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eleanor traveled to Africa (and even worked there to help further finance her travels) in her early twenties and she did so on a shoestring budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This was approximately ten (10) year before Obama&#8217;s mother made her way to Kenya where her son Barack Hussein Obama II was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After Eleanor married Robert Nordyke she suggested to him that they take off for an entire year to travel around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They decided that they first needed to save $2000. \u00a0They decided to pull double and triple work shifts. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After they&#8217;d saved the said amount of money they headed off to Europe, Africa and the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eleanor (Ellie) and Robert (Bob) visited all over Europe on a budget of two dollars ($2) a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They also traveled to Africa and while they where there they worked for three (3) months at a United States Air Force base<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">(<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nouasseur Air Base)<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in Casablanca which at that point in time was located in what was called the\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">French Protectorate in Morocco.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After three months of work in Casablanca they continued their trip around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eleanor Nordyke&#8217;s obituary, which doesn&#8217;t mention anything about her time in Africa, can be viewed at the following two links. \u00a0It appears that Hawaiians share something in common with Kenyans, they both seem to have a penchant for misspelling names:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/obits.staradvertiser.com\/2014\/01\/26\/elanor-c-nordyke\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Elanor (sic) C. Nordyke\u00a0&#8211; January 26th, 2014 &#8211;\u00a0Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/obits.staradvertiser.com\/2014\/02\/12\/eleanor-cole-nordyke\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Eleanor Cole Nordyke\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0February 12th, 2014 &#8211;\u00a0Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please exercise your free speech in the comments section below. There are no stipulations of political correctness on this blog. Speak your mind, give us your thoughts, both objective and subjective. Share your ideas, hunches, inklings or your expertise. Please provide recommendation and corrections if you spot errors in fact within the blog report. 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