How Glen and Donna Got Their Names

This is taken from an email sent to me by Donna

Grandpa Jack had a sister Eva Heiner who had a son named Glen Heiner and Grandma Frances had a cousin named Rex French, son of Oz French.   Both the Glen and the Rex were mature adults when Glen Rex was born and so we assume that he was named after them.  We do not know of any other usage of those names in the family.

Mary Donna was the 11th child born to John & Jennie Forsyth and so the name was not selected until Jennie and the baby got home from the hospital in order for the family to vote on a name.  Jennie's mother's name is Mary Olive Heap and Grandma Heap wanted the baby named after her.  Jennie's sister Ethel Harker had already named a daughter Olive and Jennie did not want to duplicate that, so they finally settled on 2 names on which to vote to add to Mary.  One was Beth and the other was Donna.  They took a vote and Beth won.  Now the name needed to be given to the hospital for the Provincial Records.  Since a daughter Belle was going to school in Cardston, and would be going in to town from the ranch for school, she was given the assignment to submit the name to the hospital. But when she submitted the name she gave Mary Donna rather than Mary Beth.  Hence the name Mary Donna Forsyth was the one used.  No one knows why Belle gave that name unless she thought since Olive was not selected because a cousin already had that name, she may have thought that it should not be Beth since they already had a cousin named Beth - a daughter of Aunt Elva Harker, another sister of Jennie's.