An obituary indicated that a pallbearer for a relative was Earl Trautvetter.\u00a0 The other pallbearers were individuals whose names I recognized as being nephews or nephews-in-law of the deceased. Then it dawned on me–the obituary was likely referring to my uncle that I always knew as “Babe.” His real name, which I knew but occasionally put in the back of my mind, was actually Carl.<\/p>\n
Earl was likely the result of someone misreading the initial “C” in his first name as an “E” or some other sort of typographical error.<\/p>\n
An additional difficulty with this error was that the incorrect name was one that I heard differently. It didn’t sound like Carl and so it took me a little bit longer to realize what had likely happened.<\/p>\n
Sometimes things are simply mistakes.<\/p>\n
It also helped that there was no relative with the first name of Earl during the time period in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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