The question is "What are your parents names? My Mom is named LaWanda Bartley Furney. She has no official middle name, though it has been suggested for years that her first name is La and her middle name is Wanda. Back in the day she went by Wanda, most of my childhood I remember her friends calling her that. But as we all grew up she transitioned back to LaWanda, and I think that is what she goes by with everyone today that does not call her Mom or Oma, or Omar...a variant of Oma forced on us by spell check and auto correct features of the texing/tweeting age we live in. We have always wondered why she was given no middle name. All of her siblings have middle names, but not Mom, another indication that Granny un-apologetically did things her own way.
Daddy was named after his Grandparents. Or so I suspect. His name was James Lee Furney and his dad's parents were named James William Furney and Rosa Lee Hook. So it does not take a rocket scientist to do the math on that one. Or does it? Jamie is named Jamie Lee Furney, and I would have bet money that she was named after Daddy, but Mom says no, not really. Hmmm ....something does not add up there. She looks just like him, she was his first child, He was called James Lee, and she is called Jamie Lee... I think she was named after him if even on a subconscious level. I am glad, its a good family name and it should go on. That is why we named Zachary James the way we did. It helped that both his grandfathers were named James. So the tradition continues of naming people in our family in mercurially significant ways. Lets see what the next few generations do with it!
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