Ono's ex-husband changed Kyoko's name to "Ruth Holman" and subsequently raised the girl in an organization known as the Church of the Living Word (or "the Walk"). Ono and Lennon searched for Kyoko for years, but to no avail. She would finally see Kyoko again in 1998.

November 7, 1966: John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met in London. Lennon and Ono first met in London, where the Beatles stopped by Ono's solo exhibit at the Indica Gallery after hearing about "this Japanese avant-garde artist coming from America," he later recalled to Playboy.

Fourteen years earlier, John, then aged 26, was riding high as one of iconic Liverpool band, The Beatles, who were at the pinnacle of their fame. Yoko was a 33-year-old Japanese artist, peace activist and singer-songwriter, who was exhibiting some of her work at the Indica Gallery in London.

Yoko had her first child, Kyoko Chan Cox, with American film producer and art promoter Anthony Cox in 1963. Her second child, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, was born in 1975.