One of my favorite pastimes is skimming the obituaries for hilarious names. This is especially fun in Utah, where the locals have a penchant for coming up with crazy things to call their children, and have for well over a century.
These all appeared in today’s Salt Lake Tribune:
Betha Orinda Allred Gunther, age 90
Orton Stephen Cochrane, age 87
Rintha Jane North Burns, age 89
Venna McQuivey, age 88
Raynell A. Loboto, 62 (“Raynell” is apparently a boy’s name, by the way)
Legia Eliza Mendenhall Johnson, age 77
How many people do you know named Betha, Orton, Rintha, Venna, Raynell or Legia? Zero? Yeah, me too.
Well my name is Rintha, I only know two other people with this name and that is the lady I was named after and my daughter.