Diane Bracher
Her Names
My grandmother's name on her birth certificate is Emma Jane Dobbs. She was illegitimate. Her mother was very young when her own mother, Imogene VanVorst-Dobbs passed away. She was trying to name my grandmother after her. All my grandmother's life she went by Emmogene or Blondie. Before she married my grandfather, John A Sermon Sr, she went by her step-father's last name, Wallace. He was not her father. There is no record he ever adopted her. After he divorced my gr grandmother he never had any contact with her again. She was only two when they married about about 12 when they divorced. Only father she ever knew. In 40 years of research, I cannot find any evidence of my paternal grandparents marriage?
