Olivebelle Hamon

Olivebelle Hamon, also known professionally as Loma Worth (September 2, 1909 – August 20, 1987), was a child musical prodigy, heiress, vaudeville performer, and licensed pilot, with a headline-making personal life in adulthood.

[1] Her father, an oil millionaire charged with bribing Senator Thomas P. Gore,[2] was killed in 1920 by his nephew's wife Clara Smith Hamon, who was acquitted in the ensuing high-profile trial.

Olivebelle Hamon was famous from a very early age as a violinist in Chicago,[4] a standout student of Rudolph Reiners.

Any inheritance from Jake Hamon had been long since lost to extravagance and mismanagement,[14] but not before she acquired a personal airplane[15] to fly between performing engagements.

[17] Olivebelle Hamon was reported to have a busy roster of suitors, including Pete Llanuza, a newspaper cartoonist in his fifties.

Olivebelle Hamon as a child violinist, from a 1920 publication.