When asked about how she got her name, grandma Bonny said she "didn't know where it came from. It was spelled differently than any one else's; could have been a way the Norwegians spelled it. Sure can't shorten it much, so I wasn't saddled with a nickname. I was real skinny when I was young, so sometimes I'd be called "Bony". Mom used to tell us how her name "Amy Hove" was so short when she had to write it on the blackboard at school, she'd draw the lines out as long as she could so it would look longer."
My mother said she chose my name because she liked the sound of it and the meaning. She saw both beauty and strength in a name that means 'Fortified Meadow". We chose our sons name for the same reasons; we liked the sound and the meaning of the name.
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