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Brother George had a step daughter when married to his 3rd wife. After bro came down with MS and while the step daughter was a senior in HS they went thru some expensive court ordeal to change the step daughter last name to Davis and make her officially his adopted daughter. Less than a full year later he not only divorced the girls Mom, but the girl got married and changed her last name. The girl never once came to visit him. Not once in the morn than 15 years before he died.

My Mom went buy her first and middle name, Lois Jean. My brother made sure they put all her names on her tombstone. Lois Jean Bavinger Hill Davis. Growing up she was the oldest of 3 sisters and was called Doll. She was the homecoming prom queen in 1936. She kept the napkins, decorations and stuff from the prom and they used them to recreate the prom at her 50th HS reunion.

My brother's wife and her two sisters weren't given a middle name so it would be more convenient to user her birth last name for a middle name after she got married. SIL's name is Kay Kimmell HIll. She did the same for her Daughter so her daughter is Karen Hill Bullard. They gave their second son her maiden last name as his middle name, David Kimmell Hill.