Editing Ken Norton (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Kenny Norton.jpg|thumb|Norton in 2010]]
Norton was married three times and had four children. Prior to his first marriage, he had a son named Keith. He married Jeannette Henderson in 1966 while still in the Marines.  The marriage lasted until 1968 and produced football player and coach [[Ken Norton Jr.]] In 1977, he married Jacqueline 'Jackie' Halton, who also had a son, Brandon, from a previous marriage. Jackie gave birth to daughter Kenisha (1976) and son Kene Jon (1981). They remained married for over 24 years before divorcing around 2000. Around 2012, he married Rose Marie Conant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2013-sep-18-la-me-ken-norton-20130919-story.html|title=Ken Norton Sr. dies at 70; former heavyweight boxing champion|date=September 18, 2013|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/obituary/2245238?lud=E1A3BF2C4B6CB74B6AC6FA85FC0B4477&fh_id=12328|title=Obituary for Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. at Buchanan & Cody Funeral Home, Jacksonville Chapel|website=www.meaningfulfunerals.net}}</ref>

Norton was twice voted "Father of the Year" by the ''[[Los Angeles Sentinel]]'' and the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' in 1977.<ref name="BelieveJourney" /><ref>City, Big. (June 17, 2012) [http://community.artofmanliness.com/profiles/blogs/ken-norton-two-time-father-of-the-year "Ken Norton: Two-Time Father of the Year"], ''The Art of Manliness'', June 17, 2012. Retrieved on June 21, 2014.</ref> To quote Norton from his biography, ''Believe: Journey From Jacksonville'': "Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best."<ref name="BelieveJourney"/>

His second son, Ken Norton Jr., played [[American football|football]] at [[UCLA]] and had a long successful career in the [[National Football League|NFL]]. In tribute to his father's boxing career, Ken Jr. would strike a boxing stance in the end zone each time he scored a defensive touchdown and throw a punching combination at the goalpost pad.

Ken Norton's son Keith Norton was once the weekend sports anchor for [[KPRC-TV|KPRC]] in [[Houston, Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.click2houston.com/sports/10851855/detail.html |title=Keith Norton |access-date=2009-03-06 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015003057/http://www.click2houston.com/sports/10851855/detail.html |archive-date=October 15, 2008 }}. KPRC Houston Sports News. 2008</ref>

Norton died at a care facility in Las Vegas on September 18, 2013.<ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/myjournalcourier/obituary.aspx?n=kenneth-howard-norton&pid=167132226&fhid=9059#fbLoggedOut Obituary Kenneth Howard Norton Sr.] ''Jacksonville Courier'', September 24, 2012</ref> He was 70 years old and had suffered a series of [[stroke]]s in later years.<ref name=BBC_death1>{{cite web|title=Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing legend, dies at 70|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24155378|work=BBC|access-date=September 19, 2013|date=September 19, 2013}}</ref> Across the boxing world, tributes were paid, with Foreman calling him "the fairest of them all" and Holmes saying that he "will be incredibly missed in the boxing world and by many".<ref name=BBC_death2>{{cite web|last=Dirs|first=Ben|title=Ken Norton was a colossal figure in heavyweight boxing's greatest era|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/24162167|work=BBC|access-date=September 19, 2013|date=September 19, 2013}}</ref> He was buried at Jacksonville East Cemetery, in [[Jacksonville, Illinois]].{{cn|date=July 2024}}