I gave my son the longest name. I was thinking about all the important male influences in my life and would be important to my son one day. So, my son was named after my dad's father figure's his Uncle John Price and my mom's dad William Edward Havens, Edward was used by my brother and sister for their sons. I wanted to use my dad's name somehow Kay Cavada and my late husband' dad's name, Gary but I didn't want to leave out my late husband's though. Nine months gave Jeff and I time to work on this. I wanted to use William Jonathan, but Jeff said well it sounded better as Jonathan ( the spelling coming from the bible) William, Wells was hyphenated after William for my dad's name and of course my son carried his dad's and Gary's born last name. So that's how my son got his name. I remember Pastor Gephart when baptizing my son said "That is some name" My Great Aunt Charlotte loved his name,being especially sentimentel since she lost her brother, my grandpa, William, the same time my dad's Uncle John in this very month back in 1987. It was a rough year, My Great Uncle John passing just a day after Father's Day and my Grandpa, June 28. Its nice that my son shares the same birth date his great grandpa Havens birthday fell on, only grandpa's birth month was march.
It would be my daughter who would have a name similar to her Grandpa Gary,
(Gearald Eugene) Carianne Janay. It worked out well, not only did her name follow in the same manner as her Grandpa Gary, but Carianne was a Haven's name sake, to her Great, Great Grandpa Charles Haven's twin sister, Carrie Ann. A name my grandma Sarah Havens always liked and wanted one of her daughters to use, but never did.
While signing my son up for driver's ed, the driver's instructor asked him, if he called him "Wells" would he answer? My son smiled and said "Yes"
Happy birthday to my special son, on this special day, there is no other like you, mom loves you so much, and is so proud of you as well!
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