Thelma and Bernice or...
My sister and I used to think it was so funny when our Grandpa Smith would call me Thelma and Tudy, Bernice.
Our Grandma and Grandpa Smith had thirty-one grandchildren but Tudy and I spent the most time with them as children since they took care of us while our parents worked. We moved to the San Francisco bay area when I was eleven and Tudy was nine but we still spent a lot of time with them since we were so attached to them.
As Grandpa got older, he would forget and call us Thelma and Bernice instead of Helen and Tudy. We would laugh between the two of us and go ahead and respond to Grandpa when he got our names wrong.
Aunt Thelma was our Mother's oldest sister and Aunt Bernice was her second oldest sister. Mama was the youngest child out of a family of six children. Actually, Aunt Bernice's name was Helen Bernice, but she went by Bernice and didn't use the Helen. I was named after her with my name being Helen.
Sometimes if one of us wanted to get the attention of the other one, we would call each other Thelma or Bernice and then laugh. We loved both of our aunts very much and we loved our Grandpa very much. We just thought it was funny and cute.
They are all gone now. Aunt Thelma, Aunt Bernice (Nicey) Grandpa, and my baby sister, Tudy (Doreena), but I have very fond memories of all of them. This is one that I thought I would share.
Our Grandma and Grandpa Smith had thirty-one grandchildren but Tudy and I spent the most time with them as children since they took care of us while our parents worked. We moved to the San Francisco bay area when I was eleven and Tudy was nine but we still spent a lot of time with them since we were so attached to them.
As Grandpa got older, he would forget and call us Thelma and Bernice instead of Helen and Tudy. We would laugh between the two of us and go ahead and respond to Grandpa when he got our names wrong.
Aunt Thelma was our Mother's oldest sister and Aunt Bernice was her second oldest sister. Mama was the youngest child out of a family of six children. Actually, Aunt Bernice's name was Helen Bernice, but she went by Bernice and didn't use the Helen. I was named after her with my name being Helen.
Sometimes if one of us wanted to get the attention of the other one, we would call each other Thelma or Bernice and then laugh. We loved both of our aunts very much and we loved our Grandpa very much. We just thought it was funny and cute.
They are all gone now. Aunt Thelma, Aunt Bernice (Nicey) Grandpa, and my baby sister, Tudy (Doreena), but I have very fond memories of all of them. This is one that I thought I would share.
