There was something in there about colonial Virginia.............the Virginian indeed.............wow............




Her parents were born in Kansas and met in Wichita, where they married on May 5, 1940.^[14] After the attack on Pearl Harbor, her father joined the United States Army and her mother worked at a Boeing plant in Wichita.^[15] According to Dunham, she was named after her father because he wanted a son, though her relatives doubt this story and her maternal uncle recalled that her mother named Dunham after her favorite actress Bette Davis' character in the film In This Our Life because she thought it sounded sophisticated.^[16] As a child and teenager she was known as Stanley.^[2] Other children teased her about her name but she used it through high school, "apologizing for it each time she introduced herself in a new town".^[17] By the time Dunham began attending college, she was known by her middle name, Ann, instead.^[2] After World War II, Dunham's family moved from Wichita to California while her father attended the University of California, Berkeley. In 1948, they moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma, and from there to Vernon, Texas, and then to El Dorado, Kansas.^[18] In 1955, the family moved to Seattle, Washington, where her father was employed as a furniture salesman and her mother worked as vice president of a bank. They lived in an apartment complex in the Wedgwood neighborhood where she attended Nathan Eckstein Junior High School