American civil rights interest groups, until her death in 2010. She was an honored guest at the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, and was seated on the stage. Life and death According to a family history DNA analysis performed by African Ancestry Inc., Height's maternal line has a root among the Temne people of modern-day Sierra Leone. Dorothy Height never married and had no children. On March 25, 2010, Height was admitted to Howard University Hospital in Washington D.C. for unspecified reasons and under protest, because she had pending speaking arrangements. She died less than four weeks later, on April 20, 2010, at the age of 98. President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy for her funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral on April 29, 2010, which was attended by many other dignitaries and notable people. She was later buried at Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Colmar Manor, Maryland. Shortly after Height's death, congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Mayor Vincent Gray encouraged the U.S. Postal Service to name D.C.'s former main post office the Dorothy I. Height Post Office. This honor made Height the only African American woman to have a federal facility in Washington, D.C. named after her. Awards, honors and medals Candace Award for Distinguished Service, National Coalition of 100 Black Women (1986) Presidential Citizens Medal (1989) Spingarn Medal from the NAACP (1993) Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom From Want Award (1993) inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame (1993) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994) 7th Annual Heinz Award Chairman's Medal (2001) National Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged (2001) Listed on Molefi Kete Asante's list of 100 Greatest African Americans (2002) Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush on behalf of the United States Congress (Approved 2003, awarded 2004) One of the 34 honors on The Extra Mile Memorial in Washington D.C. (2005) 2009 Foremothers Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Center for Health Research The Benning / Dorothy I. Height Neighborhood Library, which opened in April 2010, is named in her honor. Upon her death, President Barack Obama ordered flags to be flown at half-mast on April 29, 2010 in her honor. On May 21, 2010, a callbox was dedicated to Height. It is located on 7th Street, SW, in front of the last building in which she lived. On March 24, 2014, in celebration of the 102nd anniversary