Myrna Loy The Early Years When David Franklin Williams was travelling by train in early 1905, he went through a small station called 'Myrna'. He loved the name and when a daughter was born to him and his wife Della Mae on August 2nd 1905 they named her Myrna Adele Williams. Myrna's Scottish and Welsh grandmothers were both strong, pioneering women who made comfortable lives for their children.