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Obama's Final Farewell to Grandma Toot

Posted Dec 24th 2008 11:55AM by TMZ Staff

Barack Obama and his family held a memorial for his grandmother yesterday in Oahu, Hawaii.

These are photos of Obama scattering his grandma's ashes in the sea. Madelyn Dunham, whom Obama called "Toot," died just days before he was elected Prez.

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Space Is Not Scotty's Final Frontier

Posted Aug 4th 2008 4:02PM by TMZ Staff

James Doohan If James "Scotty" Doohan from "Star Trek" was alive today, he wouldn't be happy with what just happened to his ashes.

Doohan's ashes, along with 200 other people's remains, were supposed to be released into space on Saturday night by a rocket also carrying three satellites -- but the rocket never made it into orbit. It's currently in a bunch of pieces in a bunch of different places.

Real-life astronaut and original Mercury 7 crew member Gordon Cooper's ashes also were lost during the botched mission.