Thursday, January 25, 2007

My name is Kathryn Campofelice. My first name, Kathryn was given to me by my mother. My mother actually named me after the character Kathryn Scarlett O'Hara in the movie "Gone With the Wind" which was her favorite movie and book of all time. It took a while for her to decide between the two names Kathryn and Scarlett. She chose Kathryn because she loved the name Katie and she was 100% Irish and my very Italian father gave my other three siblings very Italian names so she wanted her heritage to be shown somewhere in our family. When my great great grandfather Francis Ochello immigrated to America from Sicily he forgot to bring his birth certificate with him so they wrote down the name of the town he was from del' Campofelice as his last name. Though Campofelice wasnt his real last name it stuck and carried down the line to my father today. So my last name actually comes from the town that my ancestors are from. Katie is short for Kathryn which is of Greek origin. Kathryn comes from the word katharos which means pure and signifies chasity and innocence. My last name Campofelice in Italian means happy field.

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