Heather: Did you hear that Mark and Tonya are having a son?
Audrey: That is good as he has girls and now a boy to carry on the family name.
Audrey: That is good as he has girls and now a boy to carry on the family name.
Audrey: Dad, he never opened his mouth. He didn’t care whether we had boys or girls. We got along pretty good.
Audrey: That was easy; I wanted the Spencer name to continue, so Spencer ‘s name was easy for me. Kent must have been in the news so we named him Spencer Kent.
Audrey: Dawn was the name of a friend at RI School of Design. Her father owned Earnshaw Drug Store in East Greenwich. Also Catherine’s middle name was Dawn. I liked the sound of Dawn Brooks. Brooks, maybe all wrapped up in the drug store. *
Audrey: Douglas is an all Scot name. Old Winston Churchill was in the news and Winston’s mother was a Spencer and I liked the sound of Douglas Winston.
Audrey: Crystal Gayle was a movie star with long, long brown hair, so I named her Crystal Gay because I thought that was a pretty name also. I liked the sound of Crystal Gay.
Audrey: Of course, that is a flower in Scotland. I chose Dale over Hale or Yale because it rhymed.
Audrey: Deardra was the name of a movie. Joan Crawford* was in a movie named Deidra. I was pregnant with Dede and I went to the Palace Theatre by myself and saw the movie. I liked the sound of Deardra Dell. It sounded good. It rhymed. I spelled Deardra the way it sounded. Dierdra, the book, was the life story of a girl.**
(Heather: Yes, Deardra was also the name of a book. I’ve tried to find the book, but there are so many numerous ways to spell Deardra–Deidra, Deirdra, Deidre etc–that I have not been able to find it.)
Audrey: That was easy. My mother was a Vaughn so I wanted the Vaughn name to continue. I got the name, Ray, from Grandma’s sister, Martha’s son. His name was Ray Kirby, Jr. I liked the sound of Vaughn Ray.