Ken Smith

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Kelly Preston was an American actress and model. She was born in Honolulu, and her middle name, Kamalelehua, meant “garden of lehuas” (a local flower) in Hawaiian.

Her birth father, Ken Smith, worked for an agricultural firm, and drowned when Kelly was three years old.

Kelly’s paternal grandfather was named Harry A. Smith. Kelly’s paternal grandmother was named Harriet R.

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Kelly Preston has suffered from a different identity problem: the frequent mispronunciation of Palzis, her last name until she changed it professionally. “People were calling me Pelvis,” she says. In her youth in Honolulu, her father, Ken Smith, was more of a puzzle than a presence. He died when Kelly was 3, but not before waging a bitter custody battle over her with his ex-wife Linda, now the director of a mental health center in Hawaii. “It was a whole mess,” she says. Her mother’s second marriage, to a government official, brought emotional stability to the family, although the stepfather’s work took them frequently to such faraway spots as Iraq and Australia.

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• “ Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma: Including the Counties of ..., “ Volume 2 By John Downing Benedict. “D.C. Hampton.” Page 364 - 366. GoogleBooks
• https://prairiemuseum.pastperfectonline.com/archive/0278103B-64BA-4.... The Sons and Daughters of the Soddies was a national association of people who were born or lived in a sod house. ... Object Name Letter. Description: Hampton, Milton E.; Hampton, Alpheus Roland; Bennett, "Pat"; Bennett, Edward Lee; Hampton, Harriet Warfield (Bennett); Hampton, Denis Cogla.
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55395203/kenneth-michael-smith/
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175551777
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55395652/harry-smith/