Anna Simon

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