Ann Hampton

Kimberly’s mother, Ann Hampton, first met Anna Simon at the bleakest point in her life, immediately following her daughter’s death, when Simon wrote a series of stories for The Greenville News about Kimberly’s life and the reaction in the small Southern town of Easley, South Carolina, to her death. Ann Hampton has traveled twice to Iraq; in 2010, as a Gold Star Mom, she joined a Hugs for Healing program sanctioned by the US State Department, in which American and Iraqi mothers grieving the deaths of their children work side-by-side on humanitarian projects; and in 2011, she worked on a humanitarian mission with Friends of Kurdistan.