Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston. Her death comes just five months after her 20-year-old son Daniel died of drug-related causes in her Bahamas hospital room after she gave birth to a daughter. "If people connect her with what Mexia is, I'm not proud of that."Īn autopsy was under way Friday on Smith, who died after being found unconscious at a Hollywood, Fla., hotel. Marcus Sheffield, pastor of First Baptist Church, who did not know Smith. "Anna Nicole is not somebody we consider one of our own, one of the great citizens we're proud of," said the Rev. Others were embarrassed by the antics of the former Playboy playmate, who died Thursday at age 39. Then again, this small central Texas town never did hitch its wagon to her star.Īlthough Smith claimed it as her hometown, she only lived in Mexia a few years as a teenager, and many folks don't remember her. Signs welcoming visitors to this working-class town of 6,900 boast about championship high school sports teams of years' past, but none mention its most notorious resident, pop-culture icon Anna Nicole Smith.
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