A: It is. And actually it was pronounced “BOO-gee.” My mother’s name was Diana Ruth Casey. Her little brother, who was 10 years younger than her, started calling her Boogie and, somehow, he got that out of what her real name was and it stuck. In the family, she was called Boogie. It’s really funny because Daddy, when he met her, always called her by her last name. He always called her Casey. Throughout the years, the people who knew her as a little girl called her Boogie, the people who knew her as Daddy’s girlfriend and then wife called her Casey and then, later in life when she was here in California she was Diana. She had different names for different times in her life.
