"N" is for Name

A to Z Blogging Challenge: "N" is for Name

I enjoyed one of my previous posts, What’s in a Name?, so much that I’m going to do another exercise on names!

Writing Exercise:  Write down the name of someone in your family or your spouse’s family. Now, strip away all you know about the person and just focus on the name. Describe the person based solely on how the name sounds.  
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 My response is below.

 

Real Name: ZELDA Z. GERHOLD KELLER (my Great-Great Grandmother)

Fiction Description: Zelda was a “no nonsense” type woman who read the Bible faithfully her whole life. Everyone knew her to be a God-fearing woman. She was a good mother to her eight children and believed in discipline. When it came to raising children, she followed Proverbs 13:24 "He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes".

Zelda was careful not to spoil her children and therefore did not hug them very often. On each child’s birthday, though, she would give that child all the hugs that had been building up in her over the year. In her steel embrace, that child had no doubt that he was loved; He could physically feel it.

Zelda had a tough life. The family barely made ends meet on the farm, but she grew strong from it. She was the rock of her family. They loved and respected her.  The children grew up knowing that they could always count on Mama’s solid countenance, for she was as unchanging as a mountain.