Trivia

First woman to serve as editor-in-chief of Redbook magazine.

Cousin of Robert Wheaton.

Brothers Al and Fred Key, Smith's second cousins once removed, broke an aviation endurance record in 1935, when they flew Ole Miss, a single engine plane in and around Meridian, Mississippi, nonstop for 27 days. Meridian's airport is named Key Field in their honor.

Second cousin of Julian Rush (1936-2023), clergyman, playwright, composer, and administrator. In the early 1980s, he made national news as the first openly gay pastor appointed by the United Methodist Church.