Well I think I have jumped the gun a little on this one since I included the comments from Clair a few days ago and his nicknames. He was the only other sibling that I remember as having a nickname .
But there is a story concerning names that I can relate here. Alma was named after Grandpa George "Alma" Poulson so when she was old enough to realize that it was a boys name then she decided she wanted her own name. So as I understand it mom and dad allowed her to choose her own name and she chose "Joyce". They gave her that name legally and she was called that for a period of time and later decided that she liked Grandpa's name better and has gone by that name for as long as I can remember. Now, however, she has picked up another name , that as I think about it is probably a nickname, of "Nana" with her grandchildren just as Grandma Poulson was always "Nana" to us. I now realize that it is a common name for grandma's but to me in my youth she was the only person that had that name and I never realized for many years that it wasn't her given name. Grandma Hansen was always Grandma Hansen but Grandma Poulson was always "Nana".
1ST three pictures Grandma and Grandpa Poulson and Kermit's oldest brother "Mont"
Last three are Grandma Hansen
I am adding the following pictures while still relating things about my grandparents so that you can get to know my Aunt's and Uncle's. It has been fun for me to realize also that both sets of my grandparent's had 50th wedding anniversaries.
My father's family.
My Mother's family.
L to R: Chester and Helen (sitting), Kay and Velma (sitting), Doyle and Ardyth, Gandma (sitting), Grandpa (sitting), Carma, Carling, Kermit, Ilean (sitting), Lyle and Zelma (sitting).
