Linda Smith (Joan Kroc’s Daughter) Obituary, Bio, Age, Parents, Husband, Net Worth

Linda Smith Net Worth 2023

Year Net Worth
2023 $2 Million
2022 $1.5 Million
2021  $1 Million
2019  $900,000
2018  $800,000

Linda Smith is estimated to have a net worth of $2 million dollars as of 2023. She has accumulated her net worth with the versatility she has shown in each field she has worked in. Her primary source of income is her career as a celebrity daughter. As she progresses in her career, her net worth is projected to rise.

Linda Smith Biography

Linda Smith is an American celebrity daughter of the late Joan Kroc, an American philanthropist and third wife of McDonald’s CEO Ray Kroc. Joan Kroc died of brain cancer on October 12, 2003, in Rancho Santa Fe, California, at the age of 75. She was cremated as well as most of her remains were entombed at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego.

Linda Smith Wiki

Birth name: Linda Smith
Date of birth: 1946

Place of birth: United States
Linda Smith age: 77 years (as of 2023)

Birth sign: Not known.
Height: 5′ 6″

Spouse: Not known
Education: Not known

Profession: Celebrity daughter

Salary: Over $85,000 per year
Net worth: 2 million dollars (2023)

Linda Smith Age

Linda is 77 years old as of 2023, she was born in 1946, in the United States. She normally celebrates her birthday with her family and close friends every year. Her zodiac sign is not known.

Year 2022 2023
Linda Smith Age 76 years 77 years

Linda Smith Birthday

Linda normally celebrates her birthday with her family and close friends every year.

Linda Smith Height

Linda stands at an average height of 5 feet 6 inches approximately 1.68 m. Her weight, hair color, eye color, bra size, waist, and bust size will be updated as soon as the details are available.

Linda Smith Parents

Linda is the daughter of Joan Kroc (mother), and Rawland F. Smith (father). In 1945, her mother Joan Kroc married Rawland F. “Rollie” Smith, a Navy veteran who would become a McDonald’s franchisee, eventually owning 3 stores in Rapid City, South Dakota. The pair’s only child, a daughter named Linda, was born the following year.

Joan Kroc met McDonald’s Corp. founder named Ray Kroc, who was twenty-six years senior, while playing the organ at the Criterion Restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota in the year 1957.

Kroc said in his autobiography that he was stunned by her blonde beauty. They were both married at the time, they met again at a McDonald’s conference in the year 1969 and, within 6 months, they divorced their spouses as well as married each other. Following Ray Kroc’s death in the year 1984, she inherited his fortune.

Linda Smith Husband

Linda is not yet married and does not have a husband. She is focused on her career and has no time to start a family now. We will update her marriage details once confirmed and available to the public.

Linda Smith Obituary

Linda is alive and in a good health. However, her mother Joan Kroc died of brain cancer on October 12, 2003, in Rancho Santa Fe, California, at the age of 75. She was cremated as well as most of her remains were entombed at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego.

Joan Kroc Biography

Joan Kroc (born on August 27, 1928, and died on October 12, 2003), also known as Joni, was an American philanthropist as well as the third wife of McDonald’s CEO Ray Kroc. She was born on August 27, 1928, in West St. Paul, Minnesota as Joan Beverly Mansfield. Joan’s father Charles Smart Mansfield was a storekeeper as well as later a railroad telegraph operator and salesman.

In the year 2002, Kroc Center, a large Salvation Army community center that Joan helped fund to the tune of $87 million dollars opened to the public. Joan later bequeathed an additional $1.6 B to open Salvation Army Kroc Centers across the nation, the largest one-time gift ever recorded.

Several institutions in the San Diego area are named after Joan, including the think tank Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace as well as Justice and the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies the world’s top peace institution- at the University of San Diego, the St Vincent de Paul Joan Kroc Center for the Homeless “Part of Father Joe’s Villages San Diego’s largest organization helping the homeless” in downtown as well as the Kroc–Copley Animal Shelter in the Morena District.

Additionally, she established as well as endowed the University of Notre Dame’s Joan B Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Joan preferred to give donations anonymously, but recipient organizations often insisted on publicizing her gifts, hoping to attract new donors.

As the Padres owner, Joan began Major League Baseball’s first employee-assistance program for players as well as staff with drug problems. Joan was also politically active and in 1985, Joan spent millions of dollars in support of nuclear disarmament, which included reprinting the book Missile Envy by Helen Caldicott, and publishing ads in major newspapers calling for disarmament.

Joan anonymously gifted a Paul Conrad sculpture depicting a nuclear mushroom cloud, Chain Reaction, to the city of Santa Monica, where it still sits today. Because of Joan’s public no-nukes work, Cal Thomas, a conservative syndicated columnist, called her a “McNut.”

Joan is affectionately known by the citizens of Grand Forks, North Dakota, as well as East Grand Forks, Minnesota, as the Angel because of her anonymous $15 million donation to assist the cities after a devastating flood occurred there in the year 1997. Joan was revealed as the source of the funds after reporters tracked down ownership of the jet that she used to fly into the area to survey the damage.

After her death in the year 2003, it was announced that Joan had left the majority of her estate to the Salvation Army due to building recreation centers all across the nation. Another of Joan’s major donations was $225 million to National Public Radio (NPR) including $5 million to her local public radio station, San Diego’s KPBS.

Frequently Asked Questions About Linda Smith

Who is Linda Smith?

Linda Smith is an American celebrity daughter of the late Joan Kroc, an American philanthropist and third wife of McDonald’s CEO Ray Kroc.

How old is Linda Smith?

Linda is 77 years old as of 2023, she was born in 1946, in the United States.

How tall is Linda Smith?

Linda stands at an average height of 5 feet 6 inches approximately 1.68 m.

Is Linda Smith married?

Linda is not yet married and does not have a husband. She is focused on her career and has no time to start a family now.

How much is Linda Smith worth?

Linda Smith is estimated to have a net worth of $2 million dollars as of 2023.

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