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Show 1 1 .. .. . Because Jerry has called me Sam all these years, everyone every-one else, except my family, has called me Sam, and many thought my real name was Sa-mantha. Sa-mantha. Of course, my parents and siblings and their spouses have called me Marcella. Some of my kids were shocked when they found out my real name was not Sam but was Marcella. It is not a common com-mon name. However, it is taken from the Latin, with the male version being Marc and, of course the female version was Marcella. I gave all my kids nicknames. nick-names. Troy was Tro-bo, Mie Kae was Katy, Calvin Bon had lots of nicknames depending on my mood, Cal Bon, Loner, Loney, which evolved into Bee-loney, Bee-loney, and a few others thrown in on occasion. Sabrina was Busarena, and Lari Marissa was Missy or Lar-Lar or just plain Lar. Every once in a while I resort re-sort back to these nick names. I have a friend from childhood child-hood whose name is Doraine. by Marcella Walker When I was growing up I had a multitude of nick names. My mother began the entire thing by calling me Annie when 1 was young. There was a song that came out in the thirties that had words, "Annie don't live here anymore." So my mom began calling me Annie. She said I would stamp my foot and say, "I ain't Annie, 1 ain't Annie." My mom still called me Annie sometimes after 1 was grown up. Other youthful nicknames given by my friends were Mar-cie, Mar-cie, Celery, Marcc, and Sam. The last name there came from my husband who has never learned to say Marcella. He never calls me that at all. He is a person from the old Monkey Town area and, apparently, appar-ently, in those days everyone who was a male had a nick name if they lived in Monkey Town. As an example, when we went to a reunion of the old Pleasant Grove Third Warders several years ago, they had a list on a board of all the males and their nick names who had lived within the Third Ward boundaries boundar-ies in the good old days. Some of the women must have had nicknames, too, because be-cause I have heard him call people peo-ple by those names. His sisters had nicknames such as Polly for Delia, Nancy was Merf, and so on. His father, Calvin Walker, was Gus. Before I knew many people's peo-ple's real names, I knew them by their nicknames which Jerry used all the time. When I became involved in writing news for the city back in-1973, in-1973, 1 would go to city council meetings and hear people called by some of the strangest names. I wondered why any good hearted parent would name their kids any of these embarrassing names. Soon I put it,all together and realized re-alized that any male who lived or had lived in Monkey Town was bound to have a nickname. I have actually seen these nicknames in parenthesis after their real name on their obituaries. I often called her Dee-Dee More Brain. I wonder what she would do if I called her that now? She and I walked to school every day of our lives together. We were the only two girls the same age on our street. We are still good friends. However, she tells me many people call her Ann as that was her middle name and was easier to say and read than Doraine was. "BLAB" continued on Page 3 "BLAB" continued from Page 2 Anyway, if you are one of the old-timers from PG who has a nickname and people still call you that, be proud of it. I don't know how my husband got Sam out of Marcella and I don't care which name you use, although I prefer Marcella or Marcie, just don't call me late for dinner! |